It is not legally required but is general policy for news outlets not to highlight suicide as the cause of death because it has been found that stories about suicide being in the news leads to an short-term increase in suicides. Or at least, that’s what I have been told and read.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s common, but I know it’s not rare. I don’t think statistics are kept on it.
Oh, I was ambiguous in my wording. What I meant was “I wonder why that is that they’re reporting on this instance when they normally don’t report on these stories. What is it about this story that makes it worth ignoring the normal taboo?”
And the obvious answer that I was implying is simply that it’s because it makes Tesla look bad.
I’m no fan of Elon Musk, to say the least, but I think this article is one of the worst examples of irresponsible journalism that I’ve seen.
They’re publicizing a likely suicide, the reporting of which, like you say, can cause bad outcomes, in order to attack Tesla in the clickbait headline, despite the body saying that the car tried to swerve and avoid the man, which probably makes it better than most human drivers in that situation.
Edit: Actually, going back and rereading my comment, I wasn’t simply ambiguous. Your way of reading is really the natural way of reading, since I used the phrase “I wonder” specifically for the meaning you thought, and then used “I wonder” again supposedly questioning something completely different a couple of sentences later. Terrible writing from me.
It is not legally required but is general policy for news outlets not to highlight suicide as the cause of death because it has been found that stories about suicide being in the news leads to an short-term increase in suicides. Or at least, that’s what I have been told and read.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s common, but I know it’s not rare. I don’t think statistics are kept on it.
Oh, I was ambiguous in my wording. What I meant was “I wonder why that is that they’re reporting on this instance when they normally don’t report on these stories. What is it about this story that makes it worth ignoring the normal taboo?”
And the obvious answer that I was implying is simply that it’s because it makes Tesla look bad.
I’m no fan of Elon Musk, to say the least, but I think this article is one of the worst examples of irresponsible journalism that I’ve seen.
They’re publicizing a likely suicide, the reporting of which, like you say, can cause bad outcomes, in order to attack Tesla in the clickbait headline, despite the body saying that the car tried to swerve and avoid the man, which probably makes it better than most human drivers in that situation.
Edit: Actually, going back and rereading my comment, I wasn’t simply ambiguous. Your way of reading is really the natural way of reading, since I used the phrase “I wonder” specifically for the meaning you thought, and then used “I wonder” again supposedly questioning something completely different a couple of sentences later. Terrible writing from me.