...the Queen's Christmas broadcast no longer has the same unifying significance that it has carried for most of her reign. We all used to watch it together, families and friends gathered simultaneously in front of TV sets.. very much a communial thing,... there was a sense of sharing in something of value, that had become a part of Christmas Day, a tradition in its own right. Not now. One could simply watch it at any stage, on a computer, with lots of other things happening: people chatting, watching someting else on another computer, eating, texting, or doing all of those things...
Something has certainly been lost because of this. But the message this year had a fine Christian message, and so it is good that we can watch it again when we want to do so...
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