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Screen and not heard

TV in pubs has killed conversation, claims Mike Wade. Not so, argues author Ian Rankin. the pair sit down to debate the issue � over a quiet pint

IT sounds like the worst kind of joke. There are these two blokes arguing in a pub. One man, his face growing redder and redder, insists that the proliferation of television screens is destroying the traditional Scottish bar by killing the art of conversation.