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I get what actually happened, I just felt that journalistic balance would demand that they actually go into this.
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Sure, agreed.
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The real problem with that article from a journalistic point of view is that it makes the usual mistake of attributing the reason behind the suicide to one obvious factor, when the reality is that the causes of suicide are nearly always numerous and complex.
They should go away and read the Samaritans guidelines, paying particular attention to number three:
http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide/advice-journalists-suicide-reporting-dos-and-donts
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Fox
The policy is that asylum seekers must seek asylum in the country where they first reach Europe. He thought that, having been a translator for the British, the UK might help him instead of applying that rule dogmatically. The UK applied the rule dogmatically.