Thai TV violence a real shocker

My child will not grow up watching this stuff simply because I don’t allow it on when she is in the room. However, I can’t stop my wife from watching it. I see that many of her friends allow their young children to watch this so-called entertainment. They see that routine violence, from parents upon children, children upon parents, friend upon friend, gangsters upon victims and every other combination one can imagine, is an acceptable answer to a problem. The violence depicted includes beatings, shootings, knife attacks, strangulation, poisoning and many other forms of physical and psychological torture and abuse. Murder is too often answered with summary execution of the murderer, the police are shown as inept and ineffectual, and the legal system is simply never represented in the stories, presumably because that would not be even remotely realistic.

This “entertainment” is shown every night and then repeated the next afternoon. There is no protection as in many civilised countries. Children are subjected to this horror on a drip feed, daily and without respite.

If the government refuses to grasp the nettle, then perhaps a concerned newspaper could start a civil movement against this type of show. Make it illegal to show these violent stories before 10pm and certainly not during the afternoons. Blurring out guns and wine bottles is simply not enough.

I don’t want my little girl to grow up in a country where a slap on the face from a man on a woman is seen as commonplace and causes no repercussions. It is simply wrong. I urge you to take action by at least writing an editorial, seeking opinion and generating some discussion on the subject.

Robin A Peacock

Chon Buri