How about suicide? I understand most journalists don’t like to report about suicide among ordinary people because it might encourage copycats. Even among famous people, sometimes it doesn’t get mentioned prominently. It took forever for someone to mention that Keith Emerson’s death was by suicide, for example.
“Suicide” is a difficult call unless the medical examiner actually rules a death to be suicide, or there’s a note, or something like that. Kate Spade was found hanged, left a note, and the medical examiner still took three days to declare it a suicide. On the other hand, David Carradine was found hanged, and two autopsies determined that it was an accidental death, not a suicide. Drug overdoses are even a harder call.
You mean, apart from routine coverage of things like wall protests and Gaza poverty? Or op-eds which favor the Palestinian cause?
If that’s a “third rail”, few seem to mind the shocks.
I still have my “LEAVE CHELSEA ALONE!” t-shirt.