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Statistics like these might
well give pause to newspaper editors inclined to sensationalize suicide
accounts, as those accounts are likely to lead to the deaths of scores of
people. More recent data indicate that in addition to newspaper editors,
television broadcasters have cause for concern about the effects of the suicide
stories they present. Whether they appear as news reports, information
features, or fictional movies, these stories create an immediate cluster of self-
infiicted deaths, with impressionable, imitation-prone teenagers being the most
frequent victims (Bollen & Phillips, 1982; Gould & Shaffer, 1986; Phillips &
Cartensen, 1986, 1988; Schmidtke & Hafner, 1988).
ities that we find following front-page suicides is, according to Phillips, most likely
due to the Werther effect secretly applied.
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