Besides BBC Persian, satellite channels include MBC Persia and Farsi1, which airs local-language versions of entertainment shows like "Malcolm intheMiddle" and which is half-owned by News Corp.
Social science popularizer Malcolm Gladwell explains in his book Outliers, that people descended from herding cultures such as those that flourished intheMiddle East depended for their safety upon the creation and maintenance of public reputations for violence.