Axe that axe! (violence on British television)
Economist (US), The, May, 1988
BRITISH television is becoming more violent. It shows more violence than almost any other country's networks. The more brutality a country's TV carries, the more violent that society becomes. The government thinks it is time something was done. True? Widely believed, but, apart from the last assertion, false.
* Since reaching a peak in the 1940s, British TV programmes have become much less violent, according to research by a team at Aston University. Programmes made just after the second world war had, on average, 4.8 acts of violence an hour (see chart). That has declined steadily since the 1960s to 1.9 in 1986.
* British TV shows less than half the amount of violence shown in any other country for which reasonably reliable data exist (see table)....
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