Reports have been largely careful not to mention anything about the nature of Charlotte Dawson's death, but most media outlets seem to expect their audiences to understand vague references to "sudden death" and "police not seeking anyone else" as meaning something specific but unspoken.
And if that's not clear enough,
perhaps in this case the stories about Dawson's depression, financial woes or torment from cyber bullies spell it out.
The problem with much of the coverage of this terrible event is the seeming need to explain the reasoning and to apportion blame - as if one troubled woman's actions can be reduced to, as newspaper editor Michael Cummings tweeted at the weekend, "a simple cause-and-effect scenario. That's a shame."
The bullying angle in particular sparked a Twitterstorm of recriminations. Many, including celebrity-types, took to social media to rip into those they blamed for Dawson's death. (Many of those tweets had been deleted by their authors yesterday).
Some tagged-in their targets, oblivious to the irony of singling out and bullying someone using their huge media influence in front of thousands of followers.
