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Letter: Turn on, tune out

Published 30 January 2013

From Alan Hayward

Video game tournaments as a spectator “sport” provide fodder for the mindless, and attract more to couch-potato land (12 January, p 20). It is sad that, for these folk, constructive hobbies are being drowned in a sea of sterile entertainment.

Ngaparou, Senegal

Issue no. 2902 published 2 February 2013

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