Media speculating Andreas Lubitz's mental health is a disservice

It's been just over a week since Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed into the French Alps, killing all on board. An incomprehensible tragedy when it was first reported... there's now a story taking shape.

And for the news media reporting that story, one fact has stood out above all others,the mental health of the man at the plane's controls.

Today, as part of our occasional Eye on the Media series, we're asking about how the news media should report and relate this kind of storywhen mental health issues such asdepression are intertwined with disaster.

Andre Picard is a health reporter at The Globe and Mail. He also contributed to the creation of a guide for journalists called Mindset: Reporting on Mental Health. Hewas in Montreal.

Kelly McBride is a media ethics expert at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Paul Garfinkel is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and founding CEO of CAMH. He was in our Toronto studio.

This segment was produced by The Currnent'sPacinthe Mattar, Ines Colabrese and Marc Apollonio.