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Article: It's OK, admit it, you were watching television
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1995
- Author:
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Watching television has never been an entirely respectable
activity. As a television critic this is borne in upon you with
particular force, because of the gloomy knowledge that the activity
to which you devote a large portion of your waking hours
constitutes, for many people, a simple shorthand for mental
vacancy. Two recent examples come to mind. The first occurred in
the context of an industrial accident hearing, considering
compensation for a man who had a red-hot metal bar lodged in his
brain (he was forced to pull it out himself, a grisly scene which
we can no doubt look forward to seeing reconstructed on 999). His
lawyer argued that before the accident his client had been a useful ...