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It is ironic that though much has been said about spectacles of suffering, not much talk has actually centered on how images of suffering are received by audiences, much more by child audiences. Recognizing that children today operate as active seekers of information and creative interpreters of global media messages, this study is concerned about how children perceive "other" children — children afflicted by disease, children orphaned, children caught in the middle of war. Like their adult counterparts, children encounter these images almost exclusively through the prism of news broadcasts. And again, like their parents, we assume that their reactions and responses operate within discursive regimes of us and them, of heroes and villains, of risk and safety — or do they really? How do Filipino children perceive otherness in the media and how do they talk about them? From analyzing their drawings about what …