YES! People are emotionally effected by the graphic images and reports.
67%
NO! The tragedy itself causes PTSD, and people want the coverage.
33%
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This coverage is looking like 9-11 when the images were played over and over almost non-stop, almost like a deliberate effort to burn the event into the psyche of everyone possible. Why??? From this kind of fear and shock comes the ability to manipulate us into giving up even more essential liberties, or perhaps set the stage for political maneuvering by one faction or another.
I think it will be very interesting when we find out who was REALLY behind this horrific act, and who was behind them, and for what reasons. I think the people are awake enough to demand the truth, and will not settle for fake WMD's any more. I am glad that President Obama is treating it like a crime, and not immediately blaming countries or ethnic groups before the facts are in. Even if it is part of a country or ethnic group, that still doesn't condemn the rest of that group as complicate.
Keeping the focus narrow is in the best interests of all.
People need to discuss it just to deal with it. It happened, and something similar will happen again. Everyone reacts in their own way to reports of such horrors. Some need to turn off the TV. Others can only process it by carefully watchng the coverage.
I think those of us not as close to the situation just want to find out the facts. Mainstream news can go overboard with discussion and spin that may or may not be very helpful, they shield us from the very gruesome and bloodiest of scenes, trying to make it all more sanitary than it really is. Only mentioned by those who have been to war zones and probably do work on healing from PTSD, a grim reality that's hard to ignore: bombs, drone strikes, and military interventions, are causing the same kind of havoc worldwide and on a much larger and more prolific scale.