Tag Results for suicide

Emily Bazelon, the Slate writer and bullying contrarian, is at it again. This time she's written a new piece alleging that Phoebe Prince, the South Hadley teen who committed suicide after being bullied by other high school students, was herself a bully years earlier back in Ireland. To which some are saying: "So what?"

The six teens charged in connection with bullying South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince, who later committed suicide, were identified by name by the district attorney prosecuting the case. The media took it from there, plastering their names and faces on TV screens and newsprint pages again and again. The aggressive coverage raises the question about when identifying a teenager accused of a crime is an act of reporting and when it's an act of revenge.

Tom Scholz, the lead guitarist for the Band Boston, has sued the Herald's Inside Track gossip columnists, Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, for libel, saying they fabricated a story blaming him for lead singer Brad Delp's 2007 suicide. The kicker: Scholz is represented by Howard Cooper, the same lawyer who won a $2.1 million libel case against the Herald on behalf of Judge Ernest Murphy.

"Beat the Press" panelists sound off on their rants and raves of the week: Topics include the Tea Party closes its doors to the media; Candy Crowley's new gig at CNN; demanding more transparency from South Hadley school officials following a student's suicide; Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly square off; and Katie Couric's photoshoot for Harpar's Bazaar.