It was a dull US presidential election. But the one issue that seemed to get people stirred up was a discussion of violence in the entertainment media. Not such an easy issue to get one’s arms around, though, writes Norman Lebrecht. “For half a century the very word ‘censorship’ was so closely associated with totalitarian regimes that it can no longer be uttered except in inverted commas.” – Culturekiosque 11/17/00