I don't want to see a man with blood on his hands

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AIBU? Dreadful news about Woolwich killing. Front page of a news website has the picture of a man with bloody hands and weapons. The blood of the murdered man.

AIBU to not want to see this and have a choice? They could take it off the front page FFS

If you don't want to see distressing images, then don't watch the news. If you don't want to risk your dc seeing distressing images on the news, then make sure you're in charge of their TV viewing. The news isn't usually suitable for young children.

Surely we all know that sometimes on the news there will be dead bodies and blood and body parts. It would be more of a problem if you WEREN'T distressed by that.

god

I still don't understand why that footage was aired, his poor family and friends. Am sure tv news is never usually quite so graphic.

The thing is - the fact that the perpetrators stood around with blood on their hands, talking fairly rationally with passers by IS THE STORY on this occasion - far more newsworthy than the simple fact of the murder happening.

I don't ever let the DDs (6 and 10) see the news except newsround - it's never suitable for children IMHO. I regularly turn off the radio news too and I don't think that's shielding them uneccessarily.

I don't think it's a case of 'don't watch the news' tbh. I don't think I have ever seen anything so graphic on mainstream news and was shocked at whAt was shown.

When the London bombings were being reported what was shown abroad was VERY different to what was shown here - I was talking to a relative on the phone when it was being reported and what he saw on the news was very graphic images of injured people. What I saw on the news was a commentary over a still photograph of a London Bus. It obviously had been 'toned down' a bit in the UK.

Im still stunned it was allowed to be shown.

it is not the english way is it! I half expected them to zoom in on the bloodstains on the ground like italian news crews

Exactly Mitchy! It took me back to watching C and N news years ago when I lived abroad.

Hmm - I saw it on BBC News at 10 but maybe it had been edited? I didn't find it so horrifically shocking (well not the blood. the fact that someone could stand there talking after doing that was very shocking).

C and N? CNN? Chicken n Noodle? You know what I mean!

HA chicken and noodle news at ten

no it was really 'his FRIENDS and maybe less immediate family around the world will be seeing this', you know people who loved him or even knew him vaguely

and also those of us who don't like very very visual news, I feel as though I should try to stay slightly in touch with what's going on outside my head but I'd prefer to be told about what has happened rather than shown in horror film style

It reminded me of when the hostage was beheaded a while bad - sorry forgotten his name - we read about that, it was horrific, seeing it on the news would have been gratuitous and unnecessary. It was on the internet for anyone who wanted to watch it.

Yanbu at all. I was upset I saw the bloodied hands pic on Sky news app on iPhone last night. I won't watch the news either. Too upsetting to see the doubtless graphic footage they will be running on the loop. Seems desperately insensitive to the poor victim's family.

My DS picked up our daily paper from our doormat like he does every morning to be confronted by the picture of the murderer with the bloodied hands right across the front page of the paper.
The picture does not need to be on the front.
Newspapers are displayed for everybody to see in our local supermarkets and newsagents.
At least with the tv we can turn it over or off.

I vividly remember seeing images of Ceasescu after he was executed. I was a teenager and it was just horrific. He was an evil man and deserved what he got, but I wish I could unsee those photos.

Now in comparison this death of an innocent victim so brutally murdered in broad daylight, and the footage of it being broadcast, especially before the water shed is way worse. just shocking and so incomprehensibly wrong.

I have no idea why anyone, let alone the media, would advertise terrorism by broadcasting those images.
they playing right into their hands.

I bet they wanted to get shot dead thus creating a reason for their "mates" to retaliate even more & causing even more chaos and fear.

the word TRAP comes to mind, shame on those who fell straight into it.

mylife I had to explain to my DS1 in very few words what happened, just in case the kids at school talk about it he'll know to walk away, not look at anything and not get involved.