Suicide Reporting: Information or Entertainment?
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 132 (3) , 283-287
- https://doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000283360
Abstract
Summary: The reporting of suicide inquests by a provincial evening paper has been examined. Inquests on violent and youthful suicides were given more reports, larger reports and more eye-catching headlines.Keywords
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