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Re:MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns by catalogia on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:26PM (#22314555)
The realization that suicide has contagious properties does have practical ethical ramifications for journalism. It's not some impractical theoretical matter that can't be acted on.
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Re:MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns by totalZero on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:30AM (#22315989)
I went to a talk on this very matter. Kurt Cobain's suicide is an interesting case study on how journalism affects the development (or attenuation) of suicide clusters.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8897665

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