Harold Schechter on "Savage Pastimes"

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Historian Harold Schechter is the author of “Savage Pastimes.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that violence has always been an important part of popular entertainment and our ancestors enjoyed truly grisly spectacles.  Even a generation ago, TV was a lot more violent, and we hear the clips to prove it.