WTF Times: 'schoolboys die in cliff fall'

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How about: schoolboys AND THEIR MOTHER are brutally murdered by violent man?

I am so sick of the way this stuff is reported. If murdering your family is a valid response to 'not being able to see a way forward' then why aren't people doing it all the time?
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FFS. The story is a man planned to kill a woman and her two children. She doesn’t even get a mention in the headline.

Title should be "Murder suicide - man selfishly kills his wife, 2 sons and himself because he can't work his problems out"

Fucksake.

Just another family annihilator. Again.

It was Level up, the Feminist organisation who worked to change the way DV is reported in the media. I have my own issues with Level Up (they believe TWAW) but it will be interesting to see what their view on this is, and if it meets the new guidelines.

This article also writes about the "sympathy" shown towards the family annihialator (point 10).

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/anatomy-of-family-murder-killing-spree-home-invasion-a7639966.html

That is disgusting

No mention of his poor wife, and the fact that they “fell” makes it sound like an accident rather than suicide/murder

I don't think the 'why' should even be in the headline.

As it is though the excuse/ justification gets higher billing than the wife's brutal murder

Compare and contrast the Daily Mail

I can't see it at all in The Guardian (looks like they last covered it in May 2018t).

Funny old world.

I saw this and am going to complain.

It also refers to the father having “lost faith in god”.

The way family annihilators are reported is shit.

Family annihilation is not the sole preserve of the man; there have also been cases of women doing this to family members too. This is a societal issue and one we cannot readily put down to some random act of lunacy.

What the fuck is the relevance to the value of their house?

I thought there had recently been guidelines agreed around media reporting of domestic violence?

Awful reporting.

So. Bloody. Awful. And its all about his narrative. His loss of faith. His finances. NONE of these things are relevant. Its not a multiple suicide. Its a murder.

I don't often like the Daily Mail, but they got it right this time.

www.leewaysupport.org/blog/new-guidelines-for-journalists-reporting-domestic-abuse/

Link to a piece about the IPSO guidelines above.

That's appalling. I recently watched a BBC series on the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, and I kept thinking, well, thankfully those 1970s attitudes have mostly gone.

But no. Alive and well at the Times.

What is the journalist’s twitter handle?

As a similar issue, Daily Mail is horrendous with suicide stories. It always gives the method of suicide in the title, sensational reporting and basically does everything the Samaritans guidelines say not to. Suicide has a big contagion element so, particularly with young people, the Daily Mail are vile for their lack of standards. Maybe the paper was following different guidelines or respecting family wishes? You don’t get very far complaining unless you are related to the family.

attila I’m sure there are a few cases of women doing this. It sure as hell wouldn’t have a headline saying boys die in cliff fall in a national paper though.

Though sounds like it was bad journalism

I'm no fan of lurid, sensationalist headlines but that article has chilled me to the bone. The mentioning of the stabbed wife as if she was a broken object randomly found in the house is beyond disturbing.

How must her family feel, reading that? Those poor, poor boys. I must be honest, I think the Times usually showcases the absolute best writing in Britain today, no other paper can touch it for journalistic quality. But this, this is a bewildering lapse. Has the journalist responded to tweets?

Good idea to complain - I will do the same.

I just hate the way that they put everything in the passive tense - "they had been killed unlawfully in a brutal attack" - yes, by their FATHER

They manage to just erase the fact that he was responsible at all

It mentions that Laura de Figueira had been stabbed 60 times, and that sedatives had been found in her and the DCs’ bodies, in a passive tense.

It doesn’t use the word murder at all.

“Sean Cummings, the coroner, described the deaths of the boys and their mother as an “inexplicable puzzle”. He said they been killed unlawfully in a particularly savage and brutal attack and recorded that Mr De Faria had died by suicide.

This is a terribly sad case and I think DS Flynn put it very well when he said that Adelino simply could not see a way forward,” Mr Cummings said.“

Mr Cummings’ quote isn’t good either. Brutal murder, not an “inexplicable puzzle”. Focus on the perpetrator, not his victims.

I agree that the reporting here is terrible - but I think the root cause is the Coroner’s attitude:
“Sean Cummings, the coroner, described the deaths of the boys and their mother as an “inexplicable puzzle”.
“...Adelino simply could not see a way forward,” Mr Cummings said.”

astonishing reporting- agree with the comments in this thread.

i imagine the journalist will say he doesnt write the headlines but the attitude is implicit throughout the piece: 'poor guy'