24 NOVEMBER 1979, Page 16

Ingrams's world

Sir: Your correspondent Mr. DO. Dexter finds 'Mr Ingrams's apparently insatiable craving to dispraise' unacceptable, and presumes to speak for other readers in this matter. Mr Ingrams is at present our best television critic. They are a pretty poor lot, but he is the best. And he only has one attitude. If he had two attitudes he would be our second-best television critic. In fact when he tries to praise something he at once becomes less convincing and less readable. In this he is not alone among successful journalists. Look at Bernard Levin, who as 'Taper' in the Spectator never had a good word to say for Parliament. Look at Jonathan Swift.

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