Why does the radio news have to be so graphic?

[mrsruffallo]

I am considering not listening anymore
I can't bear to constantly answer questions such as "what is a murderer?"
"Did that boy die?" "Why was a woman's body found in a bin?" etc etc
It's disgraceful. There no let up from this soulnumbing 'news'

[BariatricObama]

i turn it off when dd is around for that reason. but it is news, you can't expect them to spell out scary words

[mrsruffallo]

I know, but is it really news?
Seems more like a catalogue of violence sometimes

[BariatricObama]

you should see the scottish regional tv news it is a shocker.

[notnowbernard]

Was on a similar thread the other day "Mummy, what is rape?"

It IS difficult

I think you have to give them answers they can understand though

Some stuff just cant be shielded - i.e, news stands, billboards, newspaper headlines etc. IME it's easy to switch the radio off but once they start reading... BANG! Innoecence gone

[WorzselMummage]

I turn the news off when dd is around for exactlyvthis reason.

She doesn't need to know some parents kill their children, that people sexually abuse babies or that a whole family has been killed in a housefire.

I know it is news but it is far too graphic for children.

I've stopped buying a paper 'cos I started finding that reading them was making me anxious and if they can do that to me then what can they do to a 5 year old !

[mrsruffallo]

I think it's too graphic for adults at times too.
I wonder how numb we have become to the lurid deetails from so many awful cases

[BariatricObama]

its more about ratings than new, or so it seems. why else did we have tigerwoods droning on on national news last week.

[mrsruffallo]

Exactly and the whole John Terry thing was ridiculous