Head over to the Huffington Post to read Rob Fishman's article about suicides at Cornell.
Fishman is a former editor of the Daily Sun, and the article is adopted from his master's thesis for the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
His research answers a lot of the questions people have been posting on my blog, and I'm sure you'll learn something. I won't parse any of it here; just go read.
Monday, March 15, 2010
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The biggest problem I have with Fishman's piece, and it's a shame it jumped right out at the beginning, is his perpetuation of the "Ithaca is gloomy" bullshit. It's not. Most of last week was sunny and gorgeous, and most of this week is going to be. It's the relatively few grey days (compared to, say, the Pacific Northwest) that stick out in the minds of people with a predisposition toward depression.
ReplyDeletePeople can take a positive outlook and love the sunny days when they come, or they can take a negative outlook and bemoan the grey ones when they come. Fixating on the grey ones doesn't help, it's not cute, and it's not finding common ground. It plays into the spiral of depression for people who are leaning that way, plain and simple, and it's dangerous.