21 MAY 1977, Page 18

Breathtaking

Sir: The contempt for your readers that you demonstrate by continuing to emploY Richard Ingrams as your TV critic is tr.111Yd breathtaking. Hiring unqualifie, 'personalities' in an effort to prop °P, sagging circulation is a cynical practice t°3 should be beneath a journal of Put standing. If you have sunk to this level, wbY don't you employ Sir James Goldsmith 8.s Literary Editor, Mr David Niven as Ivits1,7c Critic and Tw iggy as Cf ess Correspondent' Christopher Wordsworth

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