Just can’t watch Tv news anymore

I’ve been like this for a while. My partner watches the news and tells what is happening when he comes round each afternoon. We always have Ch4 News on in the evening but I now tend to leave the room. I do listen to TRIP podcast but also lots of other podcasts ( usually history ones) to take my mind off things. Throughout my adult life I’ve been politically proactive but I’ve never felt as helpless as I do now.

And the dreadful cruelty to babies and small children. The murders of young women. The violence outside schools. Young children stabbed. Old people badly treated in care homes and hospitals. Corrupt police and clergymen. Archbishops with feet of straw....I could go on and on. And so little we can do.

I too avoid the tv news and I used to despair of people who did this years ago.

Exactly .. what do we do/ react .. I live alone and find the news so upsetting that it’s hard to find distractions and then I feel guilty ., maybe it’s due to being raised RC not sure .but now watching the severe plights of children being shot and then attending hospital on concurrent days with other wounds makes me very sad and Who is going to resolve this 😢

I look at the head lines and the local news but have stopped watching the main news as I feel so upset and so helpless about so many things that are happening and I get cross too as I m useless I can’t do anything to help or stop what’s going wrong in so many places

I must write to my MP and question why the UK doesn’t seem to be treating injured children from Gaza the way that other countries are. I think I’m guilty of not writing and complaining to my new Labour MP in the way that I used to do with my Boris Johnson adoring previous MP because I campaigned for her and chat to her on Facebook sometimes.

Sticking your head in the sand does nothing to stop these atrocities happen.

perhaps if more of us were prepared to watch the news and protest something might happen.

I think we've pointed out that living alone and suffering from ill health and in pain sometimes means that we have to protect ourselves. And that, throughout our lives we have protested. If you can watch the news without crying fair enough but I can't...

MayBee70

I think we've pointed out that living alone and suffering from ill health and in pain sometimes means that we have to protect ourselves. And that, throughout our lives we have protested. If you can watch the news without crying fair enough but I can't...

Thank you Maybee70 it’s soo difficult watching this news alone .. 🙏

I tend to read the news online rather than watch it on television. I find a lot of the adverts on television upsetting too, especially the ones involving ill children or children in war zones. That is before we get on to maltreated donkeys, bears, dogs and cats etc.

I don't stick my head in the sand I donate what I can, sign petitions and write letters but it doesn't stop me trying to avoid seeing disturbing stuff on film.

Magenta8

I tend to read the news online rather than watch it on television. I find a lot of the adverts on television upsetting too, especially the ones involving ill children or children in war zones. That is before we get on to maltreated donkeys, bears, dogs and cats etc.

I don't stick my head in the sand I donate what I can, sign petitions and write letters but it doesn't stop me trying to avoid seeing disturbing stuff on film.

Precisely. Because once that vision is in your head you can't get rid of it. Someone once posted a video of dogs that were skinned alive for their fur. It was a peta video. I opened it not knowing what it contained and years later I can't get the image out of my head.

The television pictures of Gaza are truly sickening and hard to watch over and over again. But turning them off doesn't mean that you put them out of mind and do nothing.
You can make your voice heard in many different ways, from writing to your MP and/or the papers and/or any relevant online campaign, to joining in a full-on street protest. Your local university will undoubtedly have a protest group.

Bea65 how do you think those of us who were not raised RC feel?
We too have empathy with the people of Gaza and weep at man's inhumanity to man.
We also feel for the people of Israel who suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I really don't think a person's religion or lack of it has anything to do with how desperately sad and horrified we feel about this utterly dreadful situation.

Does everyone else still have a mental picture of those starving children that were shown at Live Aid accompanied by that music from The Cars? To think that things like that are still happening. It’s the children that suffer the most in wartime. What if we’d done to Ireland at the time of the IRA bombing campaign the things that Israel are doing to the Palestinians?

Aldom

Bea65 how do you think those of us who were not raised RC feel?
We too have empathy with the people of Gaza and weep at man's inhumanity to man.
We also feel for the people of Israel who suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I really don't think a person's religion or lack of it has anything to do with how desperately sad and horrified we feel about this utterly dreadful situation.

I didn’t mean to exclude anyone ..😢

Bea65

Aldom

Bea65 how do you think those of us who were not raised RC feel?
We too have empathy with the people of Gaza and weep at man's inhumanity to man.
We also feel for the people of Israel who suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I really don't think a person's religion or lack of it has anything to do with how desperately sad and horrified we feel about this utterly dreadful situation.

I didn’t mean to exclude anyone ..😢

Or OFFEND anyone, just feeling desperately sad at latest news

I am not RC, I am Jewish and I am in tears most nights for those poor children. I wish I could scoop them up and help them. However I have to watch the news, it tells me we should be grateful!

It's a tricky one for me. I prefer the radio these days to seeing graphic images on my screen, yet I think I owe it to the suffering to accept the reality of their lives...

What I don't like is the repetition of the images through out the day- it's often just the same stuff and that annoys me. It's as if the media has the shots it needs so they go with that.

The media has far too much influence but no one can stop it...

And yet.

Israel has given a tour of a large storage site within Gaza containing what it claims to be 1,000 lorries-worth of aid that the United Nations (UN) has failed to deliver.

The move on Thursday intensified a row with the international community, which has become increasingly critical of starvation levels in the Strip.

Amid escalating warnings of famine, Israel has in recent days sought to blame the UN and major NGOs for not distributing available supplies, saying it has placed no restrictions on them doing so.

It released well-produced drone footage showing what appeared to be aid packages across a multiple-hectare site within the perimeter wire.

Can we now just admit that Israel has allowed more humanitarian aid into a war zone than any other country previously, and that it is the UN that is not doing its job?

Hopefully now someone will have the sense to organise the aid to go in to feed the children and stop playing political games. 🤞

You need to remember that most of the horror pictures come from Hamas officials, who you can guarantee are not starving.

Good point Boz.

I don’t hide my head in the sand at all Monica you can still read the news online and I do watch the news I just can’t watch it over and over

Boz If most of the pictures come from Hamas officials that is because Israel will not allow independent journalists into Gaza.

However, British doctors have related the terrible scenes they have witnessed and there is film of the many children who are just skin and bones. There is no excuse for this sort of barbarity perpetrated against a whole group of people.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Hopefully now someone will have the sense to organise the aid to go in to feed the children and stop playing political games. 🤞

You mean stop shooting children as they queue up for food? Did you see the British doctor talking about targeted injuries, on Sky news this morning?