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This survey was designed to investigate the opinions of news consumers about the broadcasting of one of the most devastating news events: parents who kill their own children (filicides). Data were collected in The Netherlands at a time when a sudden increase in filicides occurred. Three groups of news consumers were surveyed: parents (n = 255), teachers (n = 122), and children (n = 255). Results showed that the vast majority of parents (82%) and teachers (89%) agreed that news on filicides should be broadcast in news programs designed for adults. The majority of parents (62%), teachers (62%), and children (74%) also believed that the news on filicides should be broadcast in a news program designed for 10to 12-year old children. Seventy-one percent of the children reported that they had heard about the filicide cases. Of these children, 63% said they had discussed this news with either their parents, teachers, or friends. Introduction Few crimes evoke such horror, indignation, and extensive publicity as the killing of children (Wilczynski, 1997). Research on journalist selection processes has shown that the amount of newsworthiness journalists assign to individual homicides is greatly enhanced if the victims are children (Johnstone, Hawkins & Michener, 1994). In addition, content analyses of crime news have demonstrated that news on child victims significantly increases average story length, number of news stories published, and proportion of items on the front page (Pritchard & Hughes, 1997). Although the killing of children has been practiced since ancient times for reasons such as religious sacrifice, shame of illegitimacy, or psychiatric disorders, it is only relatively recently that child homicides have been considered a major problem in the Western world (Wilczynski, 1997). Since the 1960s, child abuse has received increasing professional and scientific attention, and, particularly since the 1990s, the media have begun to give frequent coverage to the killing of children. Cases such as the killing of two-year-old James Bulger by two boys in England or the abuse and killing of six-year-old Communications 26 (2001) 3 229 Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen

Should News on Child Homicides Be Broadcast? Opinions of Parents, Teachers, and Children