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Since co-pilot Andreas Lubits deliberately crashed the German wings jetliner in the French Alps,

news reports have focused on his history of severe depression.

But experts on mental illness say it's dangerously misleading to suggest that depression alone was the cause of mass murder.

They warned of unnecessary fear and a stigma that discourages people from reporting treatable symptoms.

Feelings of aggression and hostility do complicate the equation, raising conflicts between privacy and public safety.

Today's talking point, journalistic failures in Rolling Stones' college rape story.

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Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubits died with 149 others when he crashed an airliner in the French Alps.

His mental condition can never be known, but speculation continues. We'll head about depression, aggression, and how much reporting should be required for pilots and bus drivers and train engineers, as well as others involved with public safety.

Today's talking point, despite a scathing report by the Columbia Journalism Review,

Rolling Stone magazine will not change policies or fire anybody.

What are the consequences of its retracted story of a rape on campus at the University of Virginia.

Firstest update in a response to last week's killing of nearly 150 students on a university

campus, the government of Kenya has bombed two training camps on the Shabab militant group in

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