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Wrong in past years and a lot that can be done right. back with me now to discuss this, i snndira, thank you. you wrote about this for pointer. what do journalists get wrong when doing this, indira? >> well, a lot of the problems, pointer's vice president kelly mcbride has been writing about this for years, a lot of the problem is lionizing and describing in detail, not only lionizing the people who have killed themselves but also then describing in too much detail how they do it. academic studies have proven this was a big study in the major scientific journal, medical journal "the lancet" ba...

Together including poynter to make clear to your readers, first of all, information about prevention. like you say, the suicide hotline is really important. to also make clear that suicide is not the necessary and natural outcome of depression and adversity. you know, to make all resources available, to use neutral photos in showing the people. also to make neutral headlines, things like anthony bourdain, you know, comma, 61, dead without going into the gory details as much as possible. and also describe trends in suicide factually and without alarm instead of stirring up more information abou...

Terror attacks. the most deadly largely from those that acquire weapons legally. this gentleman did not try to do that. we've been very lucky today in this. smub unaffiliated, untrained and largely unsuccessful with this attack. >> bill de blasio, the mayor, said he acted largely alone, by himself. are the facts as you see them consistent with that assessment? >> for sure. there's no indication so far, and what you always look for is either a claim from the islamic state. we haven't had one yet but imagine we will. i don't expect this will be somebody directly connected to the islamic state ce...

Person who took their lives. can you explain to people why that's so important to you? >> first i remember the day of our shooting and turning on cnn and seeing the killer's face and his name and the face and name and face and name over and over again. and it was so traumatizing. revictimizing. so then we met with the fbi and fbi told us about their program of don't name them. and then -- in the meantime jordan had challenged you, can you get through the interview without naming the killer or showing his face. and think when the media understands that when you do keep reinforcing the name and ...

That the fed is worried.es when economy is starting to overheat and we certainly don't have that happening right now. the fed missed its window about 9 to 12 months ago. because they should is the wrong time to start thinking about it. they're looking at a global slowdown. you have china has slowed down significantly, that affects a lot of emerging markets. is that contagion effect there. so far the united states has been able to stand alone and the feds say they were independent that once the unemployment rate got below a certain level, they would raise rates. but what they're not the saying ...