Recommendations

Recommendations

Increased attention from the Media about Bullying has elevated in front of the public's eye. Little scholarly attention has been devoted to learning and studying more about the media coverage of bullying. Experts opinion have suggested that the opinions of the public have intensified and possible inaccuracies in some of the coverage maybe negative to effect the public. SAMHSA  which is apart of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and stands for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration. They created a media coverage of Bullying Tasks Force which had produced recommendations of the stopbullying.gov site.

Need for Media Guidance or Education on Bullying

After the media had reviewed literature and conducted analysis on media coverage. Task force members had agreed on:

• Potential for harm in some media bullying coverage.
• The benefits for creating and recommending resources to help writers to produce content about bullying.
• Ways to help writers in the coverage about bullying.
• The importance to help writers.

https://www.stopbullying.gov/media/index.html#best

https://www.stopbullying.gov/media/avoid/index.html

Sources:

“About These Recommendations.” StopBullying.gov, Department of Health and Human Services, www.stopbullying.gov/media/about/index.html.