Is it natural human facination with violence?

After looking at the puzzling world of the media and football violence, i decided to take a break and just watch some TV. after flicking through numerous channels i came across a documentry on football violence, quite frankly i was sick of the sight of it. so i went to the next channel up. on that channel there was a TV program being broadcasted about riots in other countries, these images startled me as looking identicle to that of the violence shown in the media at football matches. i then changed the channel again, this time car chases with cops shooting at bad guys. again i went anouther channel up, to be greeted by the site of extremely violent video games. then once more i changed the channel to find anouther program about football violence. it all started to become clear what the media's facination was with the football hooligan actually was, or more so "our" facination with the football hooligan.

by looking at the ammount of extremely violent television programs being shown, it is clear to see that we as a modern audience enjoy watching violence. we love watching fights and adrenaline pumped momments. this is our entertainment that the media gives us. and who more violent then a large croud of football hooligans readyto do battle with one anouther? we are facinated as an audience with there lives because it is so different, so un-normal. if they where anything but what they are the media wouldnt spend so much time covering it for us and almost gloryfying them as modern day heroes, similar to that of greek epics.