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Wednesday, January 14, 2009,
The story, Sharing The Community Grief, tells the story of 3 suicides related to the teenage depression took place. The story was handled in a better--in my opinion--way than the other story, The Fallen Servant. The coverage of this story was more mature and not as hateful as those of the other one.
When it comes to handling the stories of the 3 teenage suicides within 24 hours I think that I may have handled it in a similar manor. I think that some details like Thomas Smith professing his love to a girl was not necessary to be published due to the fact that it could be understood as his suicide being the girls fault. However, I also think that by adding little details to the stories could help explain to the public. Although it could also be an invasion of privacy. I think that it wasn't the best idea to relate the other two suicides to be linked to Thomas'. I think that if a person was mentally stable , there's no way it could make people become suicidal literally over night. I think that the story was handled in a better way, with not too much detail but just enough to get the point across.
6:33 AM
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