Consider this article from CBS titled, "Girls' Suicide Rates Rise Dramatically"

The article reports on suicide rates among teenagers in 2003 and 2004 and concludes that the increase among girls is "dramatic."

Well of course, every suicide is a tragedy. But the author of this article looked at the raw statistics and decided that the most important thing to report was that more girls committed suicide. I could find no similar article about suicide rates among boys. The article states:

Suicide rates among older teen girls, those aged 15-19 shot up 32 percent; rates for males in that age group rose 9 percent.

If you read only the CBS article, you are left with the impression that suicide of girls is a more significant problem that deserves increased attention beyond any attention given to boys (and as an aside, note the juxtaposition of "girls" with "males").

But now let's look at the raw data. Here is the NCHS report which shows on page 230 the suicide rate among boys and girls aged 15-24 (note: pdf)

Here is a chart produced from the numbers in that report.

The news media looked at the data illustrated by this chart and decided that the newsworthy item was that the rate of suicide among girls had increased. They used percentages to hide magnitudes.

Whenever a young person ends their life, it's tremendously sad. But clearly the greater problem here is suicide among boys. Clearly, public awareness of this problem is needed. What incredible misandry that the media cannot at least devote equal time to boys.