This had gone up on The Times Message Boards as a general warning to the public. CNN had been running for several weeks a TV Series on depression including suicide.
conti2005 - 4:51 PM ET February 19, 2005 (#684 of 3589)The Revolt and the Revolting - http://stopwarsaveearth.blogspot.com/ - In God I Trust, Everyone Else I Monitor It's troubling...
...a couple of years ago I did some research regarding the presentation of suicide on television. I researched fifty years of statistics.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/
It is a known fact that when suicide is presented on television the rate escalates. There is a trend with the management of CNN to present the subject of suicide on a regular basis. They did in on the evening news under the guise of 'depression' as presented by Anderson Cooper on his 360. They are presenting it again today. They offer places to seek help but these people have to know there is well established factual evidence that points to 'permission' and 'mimicking' as a venue for people. I find the 'tone' of much of this program troubling and the mental health authorities with at least the city of New York should look at the subject as they present it and the repeated presentation. I know I am not wrong.
WHAT FOLLOWED were some high profiled deaths...now, where there are two such noted deaths there has to be a statistical increase across the populous. Those statistics aren't necessarily reported on a daily or monthly basis but in annual reviews of 'trends' in a nation.
Salon
The death of the poet Tatyana Bek has led to speculation that a falling-out with her fellow poets provoked her to commit suicide.
By Victor Sonkin
Published: February 18, 2005
Tatyana Bek, who died 10 days ago in Moscow, was one of those rare authors whose literary instincts were as much directed outwards as they were directed inwards. A keen lyrical poet, Bek authored several acclaimed collections of verse, taught at Moscow's Literary Institute and was also a keen journalist. Her journalism, though, was of a special kind: She would talk to her fellow poets and turn these long conversations into imaginative interviews that revealed the unique personalities of her interlocutors. Her last book, containing such interviews, as well as essays, memoirs and poems, was rather sadly titled "Good-bye, Alphabet" (Do Svidaniya, Alfavit).
Gonzo godfather Hunter S Thompson kills himself
Posted online: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 0123 hours IST
LOS ANGELES, FEBRUARY 21: Hunter Stockton Thompson, a renegade journalist whose “gonzo” style threw out any pretense at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said. He was 67.
Thompson’s son, Juan, released a statement saying he had found his father dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at the writer’s Owl Creek farm near Aspen.
'I've gotta get my elephant tusks back'
Amid the guns, drugs and enormous expenses claims, Hunter S Thompson created a new style of writing - gonzo - and a generation of followers. Jon Ronson explains why he became one of them
Tuesday February 22, 2005
THE FREE FOR ALL after the death of Thompson in the media after it was pointed out how poisonous a public issue was can not be understated. It culminated in a front page expose' in The Washington Times, "From the CNN NewsNight Transcript: "They also put Hunter Thompson on the front page, "End of Story For Hunter Thompson." Yikes. "Gonzo Writer Takes His Own Life." I'm not sure why that's front page in Tuesday's paper. But maybe they had that early deadline yesterday." Keep them dropping like flies, right Aaron? Especially any in the immediate viewing network.
In a time when the media is under attack by the Bush Administration it choose to wrongfully assert it's power in a passive-aggressive way disconnecting it's responsiblity from the 'fallout.'
