ABSTRACT
In 1989, in America, a man named Ted Bundy was executed after confessing to the murder of 28 women. In a taped interview released after his death at dawn in Florida, he blamed his behaviour partly on dangerous impulses which he said “are being fuelled day in and day out in the media” in their various forms, naturally including television. 1 Ever since the world’s first regular public television service was inaugurated, as we have seen, in London in 1936, a debate has continued on television’s cultural impact, which many people have viewed with alarm and despondency. Not surprisingly, the advent of satellite television, and particularly of direct broadcasting by satellite, has made the debate still more lively.
