Depression suggested as "reason" German co-pilot crashed airliner

[devifemme]

A few hours ago (http://devifemme.livejournal.com/1708274.html), I posted one of my periodic recaps of my experience with depression. (I've done so here for years: each time I've received ample positive feedback, since it is one of the more common ailments -- and yet people resist treating

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[matrixmann]

I wonder where people have this information from.
Either I don't listen enough or international and some national media know more than police and prosecution office have already publicly announced.

[devifemme]

You are correct -- alas, as several comments here indicate, the media are being provided with airy speculation by a hundred different sources (some official, some NOT).

[matrixmann]

See, I thought to be determined that there's nothing officially going round...

[devifemme]

Well, I sense that a certain amount of this seemingly "unsourced" (meaning a good source, but who convinced a good journalist that he, source, had to be protected up the proverbial wazoo -- OR, in all too much of today's instant-media, not that at all) info is mid/high-level official. So, to your question, there surely is LOTS of authentic stuff "going around."

Also kilo-tons of the very purest bullshit...

[matrixmann]

In regard what was the case with the information that the Time exclusively released last week which prooved to be true before the prosecution office had its press conference, I think it more is like some selected journalist(s?) has good ties to the authorities involved in that issue and they t(s)old him some exclusive information, so the public gets fed and he has a little advantage compared to his colleagues. - Business as usual.
Sure same thing might be the case now, the only thing is you don't know which one(s) of them is it and what is sheer crystall ball reading or downright fairy tale writing to fill the gazettes.
At least reading this information that some people wrote about here, I thought I've landed at this and international press makes all efforts to it.

[devifemme]

"Business as usual."

Prosecutors the world around have no problem, iin general, with leaking whatever they think useful -- limited only by the need to stay reasonably credible.

[matrixmann]

If you ask me, actually this process shouldn't happen. Not only fucks it up the compitition, it's also often done by people which sit in the seond row, it's not the prosecutors themselves. Those things are breach of secrecy in office. Legally they would have the duty to shut up. The only thing that is permitted in the case of public interest of a criminal case is if the prosecution office officially announces something - and those meetings the press is openly invited to. These are the meetings where they get fed with information, everything besides actually mustn't be.

[devifemme]

I made this point re "breach of secrecy in office" in responding to someone else's comment (over on the main discussion of the crash). Personnel at both the French prosecutor and the airline ARE wrong to leak information. You're correct that all such personnel SHOULD limit their responses to public press briefings.

But they DON'T...