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Monsters, maniacs and madness: Press coverage of the English special hospitals
The Sun’s 2003 front page headline “Bonkers Bruno Locked up” attracted widespread censure (Cook, 2003), and was criticised as indicative of the tone of press coverage of celebrities with mental illness. The episode led to the replacement of the headline about the former heavyweight boxer with the anodyne “Sad Bruno in Mental Home” and a vow from The Sun’s editor Rebekah Wade to attend mental health training (ibid). More recently, use of the terms “nut”, “psycho”, and “schizo” have been criticised (Batty, 2008), and the social inclusion quango “Shift” have urged journalists to use less stigmatising terminology when reporting on the mentally ill. Read the rest of this entry »
