Friday, March 2, 2012

The Media's Negative Obsessive War With Bi-Polar Disorder

I'm sick the media instantly and without records, knowledge, or justification sterotyping every violent or hanus crime or TMZ breakdown to be perpetrated by a bipolar person. Does anyone else notice this bigotry on talkshows, news broadcasts? (networks and locals.) Is anyone else getting frustrated of every crime, school shooting, or out of control celebrity being diagnosed on the spot, by news anchors and "expert contributors" paid for the network. This bi-polar talk is being broadcasted sometimes while the person isn't even in custody and without any prior knowledge of the personal mental or medical or psychatric history.

To start down the path of labeling crimes to mental disorders and illnesses is a dangerous game. I notice often in the media cases of sick multiple murders, where the talk is all about how crazy he is and that he is definitely BP. Then everyone is outraged when he pleads insanity. They want him on death row or life in prision. They don't want him merely confined to an asylum, so they change their tune and think he is faking it. It is on True TV daily. So that is why labels are dangerous for everyone. Because if we quantify particular crimes with particular mental health types then if a person is diagnosed with that mental illness,  the crime has no real consequences and therefore no justice for anyone.

Let's just throw out the labels and actually do some investigative reporting. Fact checking used to be a part of reporting, now the news says what it wants by sneaking in qualifiers like alledgedly, presumed, supposed, according to my sources, etc. With that slimy lawyer loophole you can slander anyone to a certain extent.

Drop the labels because some people are pieces of shit. They are dead inside. Psychopaths that are hedonistic vultures that prey on the weak. Some are evil, and if it feels good, that is all that concerns them. It makes them happy. They don't care about the victim or their families. And some criminals if brought up differently, would be police officers, guarding your stuff, not stealling it.

To be continued...

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