Violent Television Shows Links

London News and Reviews (Evening Standard)

Voyeuristic cruelty has long been the driving force behind reality television. Participants are routinely mocked. Situations are manipulated to create a false narrative where contempt can be whipped up against certain individuals.

National Survey Shows Parents' Fear of Sexual Predators and Abductors on School Campuses (Centre Daily Times)

As millions of students start a new school year, results of a new survey indicate that nearly half of the parents of kindergartners to eighth graders are concerned about school security.

Post-Olympic clamp on Muslim Xinjiang possible (The Charlotte Observer)

As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.

DAVID WILSON: Why I really do hope Trinny and Susannah's plunging ratings are the death knell for cruelty TV (Daily Mail)

As Trinny and Susannah's latest show faces the axe, Professor David Wilson, one of the men behind Big Brother, makes an impassioned plea to end what he calls 'cruelty TV'

Unusual sports dot Olympic landscape (The Pantagraph)

If you've been swimming, you probably tried it at least once: dive into the water and see how far you can get without taking a stroke. Coast past 62 feet and you could have earned a gold medal at the 1904 Olympics.