Media Ban On Serious Crimes, and establish WAR as a crime.?

Question

Do you really want to see and hear about murderers, child molesters, victims of war, everytime you click on the news? I don't think these people deserve the attention they are getting. i see the world as 5 billion 5 year old snotty nosed children, all looking for attention in anyway they can get it. the media should learn to be more choosy on what they tell us rather than being the 5 year old's cousin tattletaleing on every thing that happens. people who sexually abuse kids, rapists and murderers don't belong in the papers, they belong in hell. what i want to see is a media ban on crimes, and let the police contact those who are effected. i want to see the leaders in this world drop their weapons and realize what we do now, is going to effect our children and our children's children. what if jesus came back and seen what we where doing? he'd smite us all. he's smite us good like it was going out of style. if i where to bomb israel i'd be thrown in jail. this world needs to change. now.

Answer 1

There is definitely an argument to be made that media attention drives extremism. This is precisely why many news outlets request media silence when their foreign correspondents are kidnapped. And certainly the nightly news is still driven by "If it bleeds it leads," as a result of which many of us have very skewed perceptions of how "bad" the world is. (The most recent example being that kidnapping is actually down but because the media discuss it so often people perceive it as rising)

But what shall we replace it with? I'm already insulted on an hourly bases by the utter CRAP that passes as "news." I don't personally care about celebrities. Also, I'm not a sports fan (though I hold no grudge against the sports page of the news, I simply don't read it). What shall we do, stick only to politics? And science? Well, you might sell me on the latter....

I suspect the problem lies not so much in the *fact* of the coverage as in the way the material is handled. It's not *what* they tell, it's *how* they tell it. We have very much moved from fact-based reporting into an era of info-tainment where even our news must be presented as a distraction. Hence the scandalization of everything.

War reporting is its own unique animal, and that animal is changing with each decade, indeed with each new war. The argument as to the validity of war journalism--are they making a difference, teaching people something and making them want to help, or merely exploiting other people's misery--is as old as war itself. But *I* like to know what's going on in Iraq and Israel because I know people in these places.

The world does need to change, you're right. Reporters, at least war reporters, try every day to help spur that change.

Answer 2

Someday this will be so, and will be a commonly accepted standard of news in thisa day. The dark news, the crimes, the disgusting things will not be aired in detail.....We are a country, as a people, as a world have not surmounted this point yet.
When war is done with, when men are brotherrs in one world it will be so.

Answer 3

I disagree. But the reporting should be restricted to those who are convicted.