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Newspaper Influence on Suicide: A Controlled Study
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An opportunity for a closer look at the contention that curtailing newspaper reporting of suicides would serve as a suicide prevention measure was provided by the protracted newspaper blackout in the city of Detroit, from Nov 17, 1967 through Aug 10, 1968.Abstract:
THE contention that curtailing newspaper reporting of suicides would serve as a suicide prevention measure was questioned in the 1967 report of a study that was unable to verify this in a systemic way. 1 The problem was approached by using a given population as its own control, comparing its suicide rate during a period of essentially complete cessation of newspaper publication with its mean rate for the identical period in the preceding five years. No significant differences could be demonstrated by this method in seven large cities in the United States. An opportunity for a closer look at this question was provided by the protracted newspaper blackout in the city of Detroit, from Nov 17, 1967 through Aug 10, 1968. This 268-day period, the longest complete suspension of publication in a major metropolitan area in newspaper history, greatly decreases the error inherent in data obtained during the relatively shortread more
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Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review.
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Suicide and the Media
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Media contagion and suicide among the young.
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Depression and Social Identity An Integrative Review
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Youth suicide prevention.
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Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: This is the revision of the classic text in the field, adding two new chapters and thoroughly updating all others as discussed by the authors, and the original structure is retained, and the book continues to serve as a combined text/reference.
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Suicide and suggestibility--the role of the press.
TL;DR: The author agrees with others who have considered this question that whatever deleterious effect newspapers may exert on their readers stems more from the implied and expressed attitudes and value system than from news content.