Letter: Which came first, the video or the violence?

Tuesday 05 April 1994 00:02 BST

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Sir: Further to your report ('Child experts link crime to video nasties', 1 April), I am left asking a question of Steven Barnett and those like him who question such a link.

If what we see on our television screens does not affect our behaviour, why then do companies spend millions of pounds on advertising every year?

Yours sincerely,

ANDY HICKFORD

Stopsley, Bedfordshire

2 April

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