Hello Panicked: I see this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to PsychCentral! I hope you find the time you spend here to be of benefit.

Personally I think EVERYONE should monitor what they watch, read, or listen to. I suspect that all of the violence, the mayhem, the noise, & the bad news we subject ourselves to does a lot of damage to our psyches.

A few weeks back, there was a science series shown on our local public television station titled: "The Brain with David Eagleman". Eagleman is a brain researcher. One of the points he made, during one segment, is that when we're watching a violent scene in a movie, for example, while consciously we may understand it is fictional, our subconscious mind reacts as if it were real. Subject your subconscious mind to enough of these sorts of insults &... well... you get the picture...

Brain research using current fMRI technology is showing that much more of who we are, & what we do, is under the control of areas of the brain to which we have no conscious control than we would typically imagine. It's just my personal opinion, but I think everyone would be a lot better off if they watched, read & listened to things that are comforting & uplifting.