Where are the mental health stories? asks Meg Kissinger.
“The truth is we’ve effectively abandoned the public mission to care for people with mental illness in this country,” she writes, and lists ideas for every reporter to consider.
Where are the mental health stories? asks Meg Kissinger.
“The truth is we’ve effectively abandoned the public mission to care for people with mental illness in this country,” she writes, and lists ideas for every reporter to consider.
Profiling killers or victims?
Russell Frank writes that mental health professionals urge journalists to focus less on the perpetrators of shooting rampages and more on the victims.
“The question that arises with every mass shooting is whether these instant illustrated profiles of the killers do more harm than good,” he writes.