Visual media shows all the gruesome accidents, shoot outs, murders etc in graphic detail to the viewers,the visuals being repeated many a time. This will certainly affect the psychology of people specially the children and will certainly be a frightening experience for many. This is done probably to enhance their viewership by some means or the other so that they can survive in the competitive media world? Is it necessary to show such tragic incidents to the people at all? Is it not enough to just inform people about such events? Governments should take the help of psychologists in this regard and should impose some censorship in this kind of reporting. Money alone cannot be the consideration for media houses and they should have some social responsibility.

Trigger warning?

Rather than trying to wrap society in cotton wool, sometimes gruesome reminders are necessary to encourage behaviours that avoid situations that cause these events.

However, keeping these from programs of small children is preferable.

Fact is fact truth matters
IF media stops showing us the dreadful things happening now around the world the winners will be the mass murdering leaders of countries inflicting war on other countries
Put Your head in sand but understand if that tree falls in the forest and no one is around it still makes a noise
Trying to stop us knowing about it will not stop anything

This cotton-wool scenario was brought on by Goaf's removal of the national Service !

indy I have a tooth acre will national service fix it
Maybe we should ban apprenticeships and early work life and send the buggers off to do national service, say invade NZ?

I am of the opinion that the media resort to this kind of reporting only to make money and the tall talk of "informing the people" is an alibi. The way the visuals are shown in zoom and repetition testfies to this. People do not learn anythig from this kind of reportng. Has the incidence of accidents and crimes come down? On the contrary such visuals desensitise people and they become insensitive ultimately. We must try to remove the causes for the crimes and accidents. Simply preparing people by showing those visuals to face the situation by some means is irrational. We allow all sorts of violations of social norms and laws. But pretty little is done to remedy the causes. A comparison can be drawn in this regard. Street children are exposed to the rough and tumble of life early. What sort of adults they become finally is to be learnt. Wars are forced on people by crooks with fanatical ideologies in the guise of rulers.I don't think children will learn anything positive from war pictures but only helplessness and violence.

Belly,
going silly is a definite over-kill !

"Maybe we should ban apprenticeships and early work life and send the buggers off to do national service, say invade NZ?"

Under political correctness Belly, Kiwi jokes are now considered discriminatory and form of racism.

we would never know how nasty and violent those antifa thugs were if not for the 'real' media. By all means do away with the abc and its selective fake news and wastage of tax payer money.

runner yet again you try to rant about a subject not post a real thought
Not that I expect better but it would be nice

indy I have a tooth acre will national service fix it
Belly,
Most likely it would because there'd be medical facilities associated with a NS just as they have in the Military.
Something though tells me that your acres are probably still hurting from sitting down on them.

Runners comment probably went over most heads because the main media
did not broadcast the antifas attacks on Ngo.
At least I did not see it.
Something else that was not broadcast in Sydney at least was the
cancellation of the footrace in Bendigo.
It was cancelled because the cost of the anti Islamic protection steps
that was required made the event untenable.
I gather that this is a major event in the area but the banning should
have made news, even if the event did not.
Was it broadcast in Melbourne ?

These quietly spiked news items is fairly common it seems.
Was the AFP & NSW police raids on the alleged Islamic terrorists in
Sydney broadcast in Victoria ?
I would be interested to know.

Bazz with respect I think the thread is calling for us to become Ostriches and bury our heads in the sand
It requires less violence in our news, not and end to violence
We can all put cases of things we think the press is ignoring, or even not telling us
But in the end this thread asks us to ignore the need to know, forget bad things take place, and be that Ostrich that is the next victim of dreadful acts

The idea of the thread is not to keep people in dark about what is happening around. People should only be informed of the crimes or accidents that take place and not shown in graphic detail.By showing those crimes so brazenly we create a kind of mass hysteria and even repercussions in far of lands. Children start to think that they live in dangerous world and develop a sense of insecurity.One cannot deny the fact that the media misuses the situation to make money.Media needs some censorship.In the name of freedom of the press or informing the people we cannot allow the media to take people for a ride.

Ordinary people have no need to know about crimes, certainly not to see their gruesome effects visually: that only causes agitation that damages one's psyche and robs one's peace.

In fact, what need is there for visual media at all?
I am happy to receive that little information which I need to know about the world (mainly about proposed/new laws that could affect me or my family) from the ABC radio, but even then, when they start their news bulletin with crime-stories, I understand that they have nothing to say and turn the radio off (or change the station to ABC Classic FM).

News media, and media in general, are business seeking money, and seeking profit. There 's no real way to avoid this without some kind of action on our part to not to not pay or subscribe to media that that commonly holds untrue stories, or are graphic in nature.

Those two kinds of stories sell. Tell the world what they fear, and they'll buy it up. Tell it graphically and they will buy it up all the more. Same with stories that have little or no truth in them, they keep getting passed around because they are popular stories or they are made for a certian audience. (Facebook articles and news stories anyone?)

The only way to really stop this, or stop any other media related problem is to not support it. When they realize that they are missing a demographic (if they find out) they'll try to gain that demographic for the profits that could come from it. I've heard of many people who have stopped watching the news because it's only bad news and they don't want to hear it. Before the Internet, that just meant a loss for the news companies but over all the larger demographic still watched and they still rolled in the money. Nowadays, with internet media, there are news sources that cater to one type of viewer or another. The mainstream news broadcasters have more competation and might pay attention more if people stoped viewing them. (While explaining why they stopped).

That said, I don't know if you can stop the graphic nature of news. And I'd rather be informed on most days then I would to not know. So finding enough people who will give up watching the news might be a bigger issue.

Dear Not_Now.Soon,

«I don't know if you can stop the graphic nature of news.»

I don't know about other browsers, but in Firefox, you can press <CTRL-i>, select "Permissions", then tick "Block" for "Load Images": you will never again see any graphic content for this website!

"Block" for "Load Images":
Yuyutsu,
why not call "stick your head in the sand " ?

Dear Individual,

I wouldn't advise Not_Now.Soon, or anyone else for that matter, to stick their head in the sand: this does not allow you to breathe and if you do so for about 4 minutes or longer, then your body dies and I don't consider it a good outcome.

The way I suggested, one can still obtain all the information they need regarding current affairs, as text, without having to be exposed to the unnecessary and often harmful graphic content. My preferred way is from the radio.

if you do so for about 4 minutes or longer, then your body dies
Yuyutsu,
Academics & leftists must be physiologically/biologically different then because they seem to multiply rather than become extinct !

Dear Individual,

Apparently trolls too.

Apparently trolls too.
Yuyutsu,
Obviously, considering that they're the side-kicks/deciples of Leftists !