Mass Media and Suicide: Comment on "Reporting of Suicide in the Australian Media." - Centre for Suicide PreventionCentre for Suicide Prevention

Year: 2003 Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, v.37, no.1, (February 2003), p.110 SIEC No: 20030682

This article briefly comments on an original article by J Pirkis et al. (see SIEC no. 2002-0190), which studied the extent, nature, & quality of suicide reporting by the Australian media. Here, the authors note that cultural factors are important in influencing media coverage of suicide. Examples are presented to support this claim. (5 refs)

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Mass Media and Suicide: Comment on “Reporting of Suicide in the Australian Media.”

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