Friday, 12 November 2010

Change: "Does Media Fuel Gay Suicide Copy Cats?"

Well dur!
Andrew Belonsky asks on the US liberal website Change.org.
To my knowledge the only article to ask an obvious - and pressing - question.
Readers seem more aware than some journalists - see the comments section after an atrocious short piece about the suicide of Brandon Bitner (pictured).
MediaWise's guidelines for reporting suicides here.

3 comments:

  1. Yes of course. It's ridiculous. And the suicides weren't even gay. They were just kids that got called fag. Isn't it sick to assume that everyone's who's called a fag is gay? That's giving an awful lot of power to bullies!

    I hope all is well Fagburn.

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  2. @ Coco:

    "Isn't it sick to assume that everyone who's called a fag is gay?"

    Only if you think being gay is sick, surely?

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