Suchergebnisse

A time-series analysis finds that substantial media coverage of the suicides of ordinary people in New York City during 1910-1920 increased suicides (258 page-1 suicide stories were reported in the New York Times during this time). Data on the monthly number of suicides were obtained from the New York Dept of Health. The relationship between media coverage & suicide followed a nonlinear, combined threshold-ceiling effect. It is estimated that a specific period of "hyper" coverage in 1913/14, during which 129 page-1 suicide stories were published in the Times, resulted in an additional 89 suicides. 3 Tables, 19 References. Adapted from the source document.