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.

yabu
we have to see it.
otherwise how would anyone understand how terrible it is.
the picture of the desperate doctor, begging for help, we have to see it.

The BBC ten o clock news was harrowing tonight. Just the description of the baby dying was bad enough; the pictures were awful. But we NEED to see them, so people don't forget about these poor people.

An army is deliberately shelling the civilian population of one of it's own cities. Events like this demand to be broadcast, there should be more of it on TV. If you don't like it watch CITV.

YABU, it's important to know what's going on. I was just reflecting on what a difference modern communication methods make to our understanding of news events, e.g. YouTube Libyan uprising footage, etc. It makes it harder for people to ignore. Just think of the second world war, the number of Germans, and indeed Brits etc. who claimed not to know what was happening to jews.