The media likes to tell us stories that scare the crap out of us. Even if they're not true.
One commmon trope that they use is a moral panic, specifically that our children aren't as innocent as we were when we were kids. Ignoring the fact that kids today are plenty innocent, and our memory of our own innocence is extremely faulty.
I'm all in favor of protecting kids from things they aren't ready to deal with. Educating them at the level they're at, and not showing them too much about the horrors of the world. (The fact that lots of children live in the horrors of the world is a whole other speech.) But the media takes this reasonable intention and whips it up into a frenetic lather of panic with no basis in reality.
We're just not well adapted to having TV news from around the world.
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