Mark,
Suspicion is always a good thing, especially in the current media climate, younger reporters, and "publications" that only exist because of today's Internet. However, as a lifelong journalist and writer (more than 45 years), I have to take exception to a couple of your points.
Traditional print media reporters usually care little for selling papers as you phrased it. The majority of professional journalists (those who earn their living at it -- NOT today's typical internet bloggers) work hard to print accurate, unbiased stories. Granted, that's far less true than broadcast and cable media which often hires "reporters" based on their looks and pleasing voices.
If print media outlets were truly being sensational and only interested in selling papers, then many of those who have folded would be thriving. Ditto for news magazines such as Newsweek and US News & World Report. Newspapers have become so unprofitable that some now only publish online and even key New York Times executives have predicted the day will come that even NYT print editions could cease to exist.
However, you make a highly valid point when suggesting that Liviu Damsa contact the journalist who wrote the original article.
Larry Moniz
Award-winning journalist, author and publisher
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> I am automatically suspicious of any news paper or media report. Their
> job is to sell papers, advertising etc. The more sensationalistic they
> can make a report, the more interest they bring to the media.
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> If you are truly investigating the report, contact the reporter
> directly. Interview the reporter and ask the questions that are
> bothering you.
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> Hi all,
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> I am trying to make sense of a newspaper story.
>
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> 1) Female, 42, tall, athletic, presumptively suicide with 440 ml
> (carbofuran) Foradan. 2)Supposedly fell to the floor, gashing" wound to
> the head, produced, "most likely", by her fall, measuring almost a
> centimeter and a half, which bled profusely.
>
> 3)Suicidal supposedly left message on another person's mobile.
>
> Now, I have no picture of the scene or anything, but trying to make
> sense of the dynamic, my questions are:
>
> 1) Any references (books, articles) about such possibility? I saw
> a report quoting around 300ml ingestion, and I suppose that
> concentrations might come differently, but the quantity still looks big
> to me. How long it will takes to ingest such quantity and in what
> interval installs death?
>
> 2) It this dynamic possible? Any references appreciated
>
> 3) Any such case in literature? As proof it does not make too much
> sense to me (I would not imagine how I can certify the author)
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> Direct response to my email would be much appreciated (even if for
> individual question).
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> Thanks and regards,
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> Liviu Damsa, LLM
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> Hi,all.
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> Did you ever confront with a suicide in which the last word of the
> suicidal was left on another person's mobile, saying the wife, for the
> sake of argument. Any references (books, articles) about such
> possibility? And what value has as a proof such data? Any references
> (not necessary to be a law review article)?
> Thanks in advance.
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