Reconstructing Suicide: Reporting Suicide in the Israeli Press

Gabriel Weimann; Gideon Fishman

doi:10.1177/107769909507200306

Reconstructing Suicide: Reporting Suicide in the Israeli Press

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Researchers have not found consistent relationships between suicide stories and suicide. Through a content analysis of suicide stories in the Israeli press (1955–1990) and measures of real suicide events, this study highlights the selective, distorted, and reconstructed nature of reporting suicide. Such reporting may account for at least some of the contradictory findings of studies on the impact of publicized suicide stories on imitative behavior.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	551-558
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Volume	72
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/107769909507200306
State	Published - Sep 1995

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