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Why we must have informed criticism

HOW I survived Christmas without watching television I shall perhaps never know.

Faced with more "specials" than your normal goggle-box addict can possibly cope with and more channels than ever Bruce Springsteen envisaged, I found nothing, including even Channel 5's hour-long, prime-time offering, Eddie Stobart's Christmas Delivery ("in which the company's truckers battle winter conditions to deliver Christmas trees and salt"), to tempt me to reach for the remote control.

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