I feel like reading the news is like stepping into an emotional minefield. The headline often seems innocuous enough, but once I've plunged in and it's too late, the content is so horrifying as to make me cringe. This was the case last night, when I clicked on a CNN link about a woman who had been rescued from an icy river last December who is now being charged in the gruesome deaths of her children. I will spare you the details that CNN did not spare me.

If there were one thing I would request of news agencies like CNN, it would be ratings. There are movie ratings that warn would-be viewers of inappropriate content; I propose the same kind of warning on news articles. That way I'm not subjected to gory details that are so horrifying I have to consciously build a wall in my mind to close off the pain.

I guess this is why they say no news is good news!


 


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The Jewish Side link
11/28/2008 08:14

Good idea that news should have ratings. I was going through a parenting news feed and was horrified by 2 stories I found. But then I guess it would cost too much and take up too much time to implement such a system.

I have unconsciously built a wall so that I shouldn't be affected by the pain, so that now when I kept hearing about India and the Chabad house and what's going on, I totally spaced out and wasn't interested in following up on it.

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