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Shortly after my last post on tv vio­lence, a friend emailed me with some use­ful com­ments on the mat­ter. Her best two points, I think, were about whether or not por­tray­als of vio­lent sit­u­a­tions are real­is­tic, and the impor­tance of the viewer iden­ti­fy­ing with the right party to the vio­lence. I really should have men­tioned …