Are there some news stories you wish were not told in full detail, due to their shocking content?

Author: webmaster     03 15th, 2010 in enart.abczj.com     edit

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    The recent cases involving Baby P, The 'British Fritzl' and details of a sentence served man by the name of Alan Webster, who's offence I really do not care to repeat, have ALL been thoroughly sickening.

    A good contact of mine asked a few days ago about censorship of media/press releases to prevent vigilante-style action, but I would like to question the very reason of these stories being in the public interest.

    What satisfaction is there in reading such upsetting stories????? I also worry about the desensitising effect repeated exposure of these types of stories will have on some individuals....

    Can anyone genuinely say these stories are 'in the public interest'? Do you have an argument 'for' exposure to these deprived examples of human behaviour?


  • the british fritzel was sickening to read about, as was the baby p story but we really need to know how bad things are so we can create hell about the uselessness of britains social services etc. without the gory details being printed we would just accept that a man raped his daughters or a baby was beaten. we have to know, but i find it extremely upsetting to read i have to admit.


  • While I too have worried about desensitisation, ultimately I believe it is important to understand the depths of depravity that hide in the shadows.

    It's like any problem, until you accept it's existence and understand it's horror, you cannot cure it. Like alcoholism or drug addiction, society has social illnesses and if we do not realise them we cannot cure them.

    Law enforcement, social schemes and politicians are ultimately receiving money for their 'actions' while we, the public, receive nothing for caring but it is our duty, as a village, to care for our own.

    I had no idea of the horrors some children live through until recently and I feel stupid for being so ignorant. What I've learned is that it hurts us all when one of our children is hurt, and that there exists a natural inclination within the human species to protect. We also have a highly developed sense of security and when we realise that many within our species are committing violence against others of our own, there is an inbuilt response to get rid of them.

    When one person threatens the security and integrity of the group, evolution has developed us to recognize the danger and our natural responses are the right ones.

    Our problem is this newly evolved 'blame' culture. Human rights acts and amnesty retards our need to protect and enhance our security. they expose our weakest points and leave us without protection. We feel vulnerable and impotent.

    So yes, we do need to know these stories in order for our group to strengthen itself against attack from within and learn behaviour that leads to these deviant activities. It's about survival, and only when we are aware of the dangers around us can we feel equipped to deal with the root of the problem.

    It's why humanity is the most rampant mammalian species on the planet.

    I'd also like to add that the reason many of us feel horror and shock at these stories is because we have lived in a delusion, we don't see the pain and suffering all around us. We live as though everyone is happy and when we realise that people are living in a literal HELL we're shocked.

    Once we accept that these situations exist, we can start making progress to solve the problems.


  • They don't give enough detail.
    By not talking about things,doesn't make them go away.
    If you don't like a news item,don't watch it or read it,but let others have their choice.


  • interesting Q

    i don't know the answer... perhaps the details will spur action or they might just be for gory "entertainment"


  • I read the first part of your question!!

    Kat told me about the baby a couple of weeks ago!!

    I have two kids, one of them is 16 and 6'2'', but I remember when he was tiny.. I was watching the news at night and it was horrific. I decided then I wouldn't watch the news anymore, and I haven't.

    maybe I'm ignorant, but I'm surely not worse off.. am I???


  • No


  • I've cited this article before a couple of weeks ago, and although I think the article is in some ways equally as sensationalised I think it makes a valid point.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...


    I'm going to be really unpopular for saying this but I genuinely feel a lot of the furore around emotive cases is more to do with the public caring about how it makes THEM feel, THEY want to feel better, THEY wish it had never happened..society is now used to every problem be it health of financial, whatever, having a 'fix'. There were numerous Q's about " I feel awful about baby P I'm not sleeping..." I'm not knocking people for having human feeling but WTF is all that about? THEM not baby P!

    I've asked two Q's in the past over overly graphic reporting or images..and I'm going to link to one because it was the best answer I've ever had on this site and as long as there are voices to counter the ridiculous and manipulative reporting then at least some order can still exist.
    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

    Apologies for overly long and probably boring links but this is a subject that pushes buttons with me :-(


  • no, and here's the crux of it, if we didn't know what was going on, then how can we as a people continue on our evolution. I don't like the idea of holding back info, that will snowball into the media gradually reducing what little we do get.



  • In order to understand human nature, one has to know of its ugly underbelly. Sticking your fingers in your ears and going 'la la la, I can't hear you' is not an answer.

    Furthermore, our legal system is deliberately transparent, and proceedings have to be undertaken in public. Dunno about you, but I would have it no other way.


  • Yes, I wish I could be an osterich. However, sometimes we have to have what we're capable of rammed down our throat.


  • yes i agree with your point, but the Imagination CAN concoct all types of horror when details are not printed, i still have nightmares about the maddie mccann story and as a mother of a four year old i can even imagine my daughters own face before me. but i do get your point , maybe sometimes we are not on a need to know basis, but it does sell papers.


  • Hypocrite makes a good point when he says it's like ancient Rome - the gutter press feed the public these stories in gory details to increase their sales and dull people's senses to the true horror of what is going on around them every day.

    It's a circus - ghouls and freaks in one corner and smoke and mirror celebrity in another.


  • You make a valid point. On the occasions I have read about these sort of things I have just felt sick. I hadn't read about Alan Webster, so I had to google that. I should have left it alone. I'm glad I can stop reading when I get the drift.

    I think some people like to know everything as they have a thirst for horror. They seem to forget that real people lie behind the nasty stories. It seems a bit like ancient Rome sometimes.







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