Aggression and brutality are parts of human life. However, when watching TV it seems that this touchy issue is often picked up and shown to attract an audience hungry for sensations. The correlation between brutality on TV and aggressive behaviour in a society is one of the hottest issues of media research. There are no secure results yet, but as public broadcasters we have to reflect upon our responsibility of how to depict violence and brutality in an appropriate way. How can public TV help to understand the very nature of personal, structural and cultural violence? How far should we go in showing brutal scenes? How can we manage to walk the line between real violence and its televised adaptation?
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