Keywords: Western Europe, [EN], disabilities, media, article, media ethics & diversity, print
This article by The Press Gazette, shows that the 60% of UK people with mental health problems blame media coverage for discrimination that they experience in their daily lives. Liz Nightingale from Rethink, the UK’s largest severe mental illness charity, writes that the organisation’s members think that misrepresentation adds to a stigma that is often worse than the illness itself.
Media misreporting of mental illness is no joke [EN].doc
