to think the ITV news last night was shocking?

[CoralRose]

Or possibly I'm being naive as it's the first time I've watched the 10o'clock news in a long time.

Of course, I don't think we should be sheltered from the horrors of what is happening around the world, and the events itself are truly shocking,

however

surely there could have been explicit warnings before they showed those dreadful pictures last night.

I honestly couldn't sleep.

I'm not sure such graphic images are completely necessary are they?!

I'm talking about the first piece on Syria.

It's the ten o'clock news and way past the watershed.
There's always a warning of graphic images if you don't want to watch.
We cannot censor what's happening in the world. it needs to be seen for us to realise the hideous things that are going on.
I'm sure the people of Syria didn't see it, their news broadcasts are censored.
Is that really what you would prefer?

Make a complaint. They are responsible for warning of graphic images that could be upsetting.

No, but I don't feel it's necessary to film/broadcast a father holding his dead toddler.

You are contradicting yourself by saying that we shouldn't be sheltered from what is happening and then going in to say you don't think graphic images are necessary.

I believe shocking images should be shown so the world know what's really happening. There should of course be a warning, but the usual 'some viewers may find this disturbing' is enough.

yabu

jeez

yabu it was the news (late night) it reports the reality of what is actually happening.
Tragically the female journalist who was reporting it is now dead too.

Okay, I do think that these tragedies and horrors should be reported. But why the images?!

I think this is acceptable on the 10 O'Clock News.

(The problem is when similar is shown on the 6 O'Clock pre-watershed transmission; something which has happened recently unfortunately).

Oh come on! It was the news programme. This is the news. Mass slaughter happening in Syria whilst the international community sits around and rings their hands. The images chosen will have been carefull chosen and edited. They represent a tiny fraction of the horror. Lots of toddlers - and fathers will be dying.
If that renders you unable to sleep I suggest you watch repeats of Heartbeat instead. Nobody forces you to watch the news.

Why not the images?

The rest of the world knowing the truth about what is happening is probably the only hope these poor people have.

In many parts of the world there is no chance to watch uncensored news. Syria is a prime example. Personally, I think that the courageous journalists and photographers who sometimes die in the process of bringing us the unpalatable realism of situations like that in Syria should be applauded.

If you don't want to watch what is happening in the real world OP, then keep turn the television off. Otherwise, accept that 10 o'clock is well past the watershed and that the news needs to reflect reality. Distressing as that reality often is.

did they warn first before showing the images?

It's on ITV player. With no warning. It starts with pictures of explosions and goes on to show footage of :" an injured baby, loosing it's battle for life" "an injured fathering cradling his dead toddler" and young boys "caressing the face of their dead father".

Why could this not just have been reported on, why these horrific images?

YABU

I think that with warnings on the 10 o'clock news it is valid to show images and make us realise the horror of the situation.

I don't think the images should be on the front pages of newspapers, displayed at toddler height in the shops, there for all to see whatever age and temperament they are.

I can choose not to let my dcs watch a news programme on tv (they are in bed anyway but ykwim) but I can't stop them seeing pictures outside shops.

My ds(7) has mental health problems as it is without this sort of image going round in his brain when he is too young to process it.

Because this is what is happening in Syria

Awful stuff is happening, it wouldn't do it justice if it were watered down and made 'nice' for tv.

However, I didn't see it so shouldn't really judge

Because TV is a visual medium as is the Internet.

Next time, turn on the radio.

OP - you do realise that journalists are dying to reveal the truth of what's happening? Would you like to pay their sacrifice any respect at all?

I don't think it's possible to make it 'nice' laambkins.

Yes, RIP Marie Colvin.
What a courageous lady she was,

Seriously your watching reports and looking at photos about a war. WTF did you think you were going to see fluffy bunnies? It's a war people die horrifically if you don't want to see such things turn the channel over when it starts reporting war and don't bloody look at photos online!

What Northern and others said.

This is reality in Syria. There are earlier options for news stories, more accessible too in the days of I-Player.

the images are horrific becuase what is happening there is disgusting and horrific; anything less would do those poor people a huge injustice.

There does seem to be a double standard. It seems that it is OK to show dead people so long as they are foreign. The news don't seem to feel the need to show the bodies of people who die in the UK.