Remember when it was public policy NOT to publicize terrorist acts? I wonder sometimes what would have happened it school shootings had been treated that way. Not that they could or should have been, just, what if?

A young lady who very-recently moved to an area where things are very dangerous (pick any world hotspot) wrote to her mother, "Mommie, please, only watch the news once each week, not every day." Maybe when people have so much going on in their lives that they can't get too much news aimed at them, they gain ways of living more positively in the world. In our family, it fell to me to watch 9/11 coverage and get summaries to give Hardi, while Hardi was too busy helping people DEAL with it to see any of the coverage except one night's televised summary film of the planes hitting the buildings. I have a lot of accumulated reactions, while he is free of these and can focus on other stuff. We balance each other out that way.

Just a thought.

Never mind violent movies-- songs-- TV show-- cartoons--

Too damn much NEWS?

~Susan