| Disaster photographs on the bus: effect on children
Our local bus service recently changed the provider of "content" to the television screens on the bus. While the old provider showed mostly discreet and non-controversial photographs, the new version (nau.ch) shows quite graphic photographs to illustrate news stories.
For example, in the last few days, we've had images of houses burning spectacularly in California, a childs buggy lying knocked onto its side to illustrate the anniversary of a terror attack in Australia, a bus cut into two at a level crossing in France, a train crashed onto a motorway in the USA, bad car crashes in Switzerland, all illustrated dramatically.
While I understand that the kids need to learn about this at some stage, I would never deliberately expose my children (who are 5) to these images until they are at an age where they're able to start to understand and cope with the concept and frequency of disasters. We don't show the TV news to the kids and they're not exposed to it much anywhere else (they do sometimes pick up Blick am Abend or 20 minutes, but in these newspapers the disasters are generally balanced with photos of normal or positive events).
I get that news is "saturated" these days and kids of all ages are exposed to it to some extent anyway, but am I unreasonable in thinking that the bus should not be showing these kinds of pictures? What age is appropriate for kids to be seeing this kind of thing anyway?
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