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Discuss how violent material on screen might - a) Do harm and b) Do good.  

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Discuss how violent material on screen might a) Do harm b) Do good The media operate relatively freely in countries like Britain, compared to those under more repressive regimes such as China. Nevertheless, there are a plethora of laws and regulations which act as constraints on media production. Television and radio are subject to the strongest controls of any media, for technological and political reasons. The BBC's licence is renewed every ten years, and the license fee set by the government, which also appoints the board of governors. Their role is to ensure that the BBC fulfils its obligations as laid down by the law, and if necessary to intervene if individual programmes are deemed to exceed the BBC's remit. Violence on screen today is over rated; people seem to blame it for a lot of the things that go on today. But in my opinion people need to take other things into account....

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