It is little wonder that people are turning off the news in record numbers. The images are often unwatchable, the descriptions beyond imagining, the scale incomprehensible. Everywhere you look the cruelty of the human spirit is on display. Newsreaders have adjusted their scripts. They used to say, “Some viewers might find the next item distressing.” Now it is an unequivocal declaration. “The images are distressing.” They could use other words and still not capture the enormity of what is cascading day after day into the living rooms and on to the screens of those who have not yet opted to...