Giving it to women and their partners who have a miscarriage or the loss of a child is also heartbreaking.
I'm not saying don't talk about, I'm just saying calling it trauma and PTSD will irrevocably harm some people and possibly hurt more than it will help.
I don't think the media should lie even if it harms people. But equally I don't think the story here is a story that justifies the harm it might cause, they still can tell the truth responsibly if the BBC just took care and didn't chase clicks.
This is a deeply silly analysis. PTSD is a fairly specific and in many ways physical set of reactions to trauma; if you've had no personal exposure to it, you'd be unlikely to describe it convincingly to a professional, let alone somehow incubate it in your own mind simply by a suggested association.
It's been suggested that PSTD can be "contagious", but the connection between "PTSD" and a specific trauma (ie: the belief that some specific trauma "is supposed to" cause PTSD) isn't the vector.
If something causes PTSD, it causes PTSD. Pretending otherwise doesn't prevent it.
Even if true, that doesn't mean it wasn't heartbreaking and didn't have long-term effects on the family.