The Mail reaches an all-time low of irresponsible reporting on suicide

This is a staggering story. 

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/staggers/2012/06/mail-online-illustrates-eiffel-tower-suicide-story-video-0

The Mail have reported on the suicide of a man who threw himself off the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 

All of the best practice guidelines, developed in concert with mental health charities and researchers, including those from the PCC, recommend not giving detailed or graphic descriptions of method, because this can increase the use of that method by readers. 

I reviewed the research behind that in this column:

The Mail have illustrated their story with a video of a man throwing himself off the top of the Eiffel Tower and dying.  

What an appalling, appalling, dangerous piece of work. Salutes to NS for covering it. 

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