The Daily Telegraph breached suicide reporting guidelines by saying ‘Go for it, boaties’: Press Council
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Australia’s newspaper watchdog, the Australian Press Council (APC), has found The Daily Telegraph breached its standards in its reporting about offshore asylum seekers.
The APC requires its members not to sensationalise, glamorise of trivialise suicides. Reporting on suicide, or suicide attempts, must also not stigmatise those involved and should not be given undue prominence.
Blair: An element of satire?
A 2019 post by Tim Blair which ran online on The Daily Telegraph, however, was found to be mocking in tone and trivialising the suicide attempts of offshore asylum seekers.
