You're listening to the news on the radio, a talk channel, and they announce that the following story may be offensive to some and includes disturbing stuff. Would you turn off the radio if you were alone without the kids? Do you appreciate such warnings?

[And I was all ready to edit or close the thread ]

Which news station is that one?

CBC radio. I've heard it a few times. Like if they are doing an interview and there are cuss words, or a story about a pedophile, that sort of thing.
http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/home.asp

[yes, I know CBC changed their format a few years ago and are no longer all-talk].

Oh. We're strictly CFRB people in my house

CBC radio [yawn]...well in that case that would probably make it one of the most interesting things they ever talk about so I would actually be less likely to change the station.

Disclaimer: I was force fed CBC radio throughout my childhood and have yet to fully recover from that experience.

Yes and yes.

I really appreciate those sort of warnings. I can't stand hearing details about violent / gruesome crimes / deaths and if something like that is coming up, I switch the station immediately.

[I wish for all of us to have the same sort of intolerance for lashon hara!]

I appreciate them. I think of them as a cue that something interesting is about to come up and I listen more closely.

Doesn't that have the risk of hearing something unprepared on another station?

Amen.

I suppose it is a risk, but in practice it doesn't end up like that. I mainly listen a news/talkback station and if that stuff comes up there, I switch to a 24 hour news station where the news is more issues and politics based.

Worst case scenario, when I switch to the second station, they will be giving the sports news, at which point I would switch to a classical music station for a bit, or turn the radio off altogether (albeit not with quite the same alacrity as with items warranting the warning.)

Sometimes I don't use my system at all. For example, I felt compelled to learn more about the shootings in Finland and davka listened to discussion on it and associated issues, eg. monitoring of youtube, though the whole thing was so heart-wrenching.

Same here, just curious.

Ditto.

It was just to teach the mods a lesson in being DLZ

i think i would.



same here. once i start hearing it, i turn off the volume. i listen 880 am, so it takes a minute maximum. why do they need to let us know those gruesome details?

ditto...

If you really would turn off the radio after hearing such a warning, why did you read this topic?

Perfect title for one of his Bull Session threads, and Enforcer had posted in it.

I find CBC radio boring.

I was influenced by my pre-conceived notions. I saw who the author was and saw the last poster's name.

Who is that cute guy in your signature?

it is a young east asian girl. are you trying to be funny?

Just reliving old times.

I was listening to the radio to a news story about the man who was recently tasered at the Vancaouver airport and who died. This is a very big news story here and to me, raises very important questions about the integrity of the police and abuse of their powers and the ubiquitous nature of video surveillance and whether a video tells the whole story in context and whether the video can covey emotions and what happens when police and even eyewitness versions of events are contrasted with how the incident appears on an objective video, a whole host of issues. In short, a man was acting erratically in an international airport and the police subdued him with a taser and the man died. There are a number of investigations ongoing to determine the facts of the case. To me, the story is very, very interesting. However, relevant to this thread is that I was listening to the radio and the person reading the news announced a standard warning that the following audio clip may be disturbing [I forget his exact words, if it was "will be disturbing" or "may be disturbing", but he definitely used the word, disturbing, and it was in the form of a warning].

So I listened to the audio clip on the radio - as part of my research for h.com I felt it behooved me to take this responsibility upon myself. The audio clip was from the video of the incident, viewable here:

Warning graphic content: Footage of final moments of Robert Dziekanski's life
http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/bc/ondemand/vi...RTASERVIDEO.wmv

If you opt, listen to the audio without video - there is no cussing, no sexual content, and I would even argue no graphic violence.

So I go back to the question in the opening post - should warnings about the content to follow always be heeded by Jews to spare themselves exposure?

Update:


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...Story/National/




Comment: In my opinion, there's no way these measures would be taking place if not for the serendipitous video, if we had to rely solely on the police version of what happened.
Hail to the empowerment of the digital age.

I never turn a channel unless I determine what is offensive to me.

On the topic of tasers, Naomi Klein had an article in today's paper where she quotes a former mayor of Toronto, John Sewell as saying,
"the taser is not the thing that replaces the gun, it's what replaces all the other things that police might do other than use a gun, like talk to you."

I thought that was an interesting comment.