I am disturbed by the Tribune’s coverage of the recent tragedy involving the Lemak family in Naperville. Why have your reporters felt compelled to report such details as what Marilyn Lemak ordered at a neighborhood gourmet party or what the Lemaks paid for their house?
As if this irrelevant trivia would yield any insight into the cause of the tragedy.
I would rather your reporters had sought answers from Ms. Lemak’s doctor or any of the psychiatry departments at Chicago’s major teaching hospitals or from one of the mental health advocacy organizations, which could have provided information about depressive illnesses.
The Tribune missed an opportunity to provide a great public service–that of educating its readers about the seriousness and high incidence of the biological brain disorders unipolar and bipolar depression and the danger in not taking these illnesses seriously.
Your reporters should be asking why Ms. Lemak’s illness had been allowed to deteriorate to the point that it did.
