It may be tempting to protect youngsters from bad news. Yet “children are most disturbed when there’s an information vacuum”, one editor argues
Everything must be explained: viewers may not know who Vladimir Putin is or even, at the younger end of the age range, what Russia is. Producers and presenters visit schools to try out bulletins and see what is misunderstood. Ahead of big events like elections, researchers do fieldwork to find out what children already know .
It is tempting to protect youngsters from bad news. Yet “children are most disturbed when there’s an information vacuum”, Mr James argues. Amber Williams, who edits the’s monthly supplement for children, adds that they anyway “experience all the things we as adults try to shield them from”. When theran an interview with a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, the story carried a warning. But, notes Ms Williams, most American children have done active-shooter drills since kindergarten.
On-demand television means children no longer need to sit through the news to get to the cartoons, and ever-fewer households have a newspaper lying on the kitchen table . Only about 100,000 children tune in to watch “Newsround” live. But 2m watch each week in schools. Three-quarters of primary-school teachers use its bulletins in their lessons, theAnd new forms of media may be making children more politically engaged and active.
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