Daily Mail’s publication of suicide methods not in public interest, rules watchdog
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An article in the Daily Mail Australia which described the suicide of a man on a Sydney railway platform, has been condemned by the press watchdog for its vivid description of the death.
The article headed ‘Commuter chaos as man throws himself in the path of a train in front of horrified passengers on a busy Sydney platform – and drivers have to drag him from under the carriage’, was published on May 30 2017, and included witness accounts.
Is anything that the Daily Mail publishes actually in the public interest?
Spoiler alert: no
As someone who suffers mental illness i feel this so irresponsible. Get a grip media outlets do not glorify suicide particularly in such detail as sad as it is people do get ideas.
Beyond reprehensible and another reason why we block them on all spends.
Talk with your feet.