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Oggetto: MFI Update: Huffington Post Mental Health Media Bias
A: mindfreedom-news a intenex.net
Data: Sabato 2 ottobre 2010, 18:35

MindFreedom International UPDATE - 2 October 2010
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward
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Below is UPDATED and CORRECTED version of yesterday's alert. 

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News with photo: http://3.ly/mfijaffe
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  The Huffington Post Carries Attack on "Alternatives 2010" Mental Health
Conference

ACTION: Ask Editors of Huffington Post For Fair Coverage of Mental Health

by David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: Yesterday, the sound of a rare thunderstorm resounded
over the hotel ballroom roof as journalist Robert Whitaker keynoted to the
Alternatives 2010 conference, where more than 1,000 mental health
consumers and psychiatric survivors have registered. 

Whitaker delivered a message worthy of the thunder, based on his book
Anatomy of an Epidemic. He provided scientific data that the psychiatric
profession has grossly deceived the public for decades about the risks and
benefits of psychiatric drugs.

BIAS AT THE HUFFINGTON POST

You'd think a blog like The Huffington Post would be intrigued about how a
marginalized population has found its own voice and delivers
peer-delivered services.

You won't find such news in The Huffington Post. Instead, as they have
many times before, The Huffington Post ran another diatribe by extremist
D. J. Jaffe, which you can read here:

http://3.ly/huffingtonjaffe

In his Huffington Post blog, Jaffe has repeatedly called for making it
easier and easier to get court orders to force us to take psychiatric
drugs, and he does that again in The Huffington Post "news coverage" of
Alternatives 2010. It turns out Jaffe never even made an appearance at the
conference that he "covered."

You can try try adding your comment directly to the debate on Jaffe's blog
entry by logging in on The Huffington Post at the above link. 

However, I have submitted two comments to this Huffington Post in blog in
the past two days, and neither one has been approved by their editors so
far. You can read my posts, which have apparently been suppressed, on
MFI's blog here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog

IT'S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO CONTACT THE HUFFINGTON POST EDITORS, DIRECTLY. 

Ask a simple, strong, civil question. You can do this action without
registering on their web site.

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ACTION * ACTION * ACTION 

A sample question to ask The Huffington Post -- though your own words are
best:

"Dear Huffington Post Editors: You have bloggers covering mental health.
But why don't you give prominent coverage to any representative from the
mental health consumer and psychiatric survivor movement? Doesn't this
constituency deserve a voice? The disability movement has a saying,
'Nothing About Us, Without Us.' If you carry Jaffe's hate speech, then
what about the other side of the story?"

CONTACT The Huffington Post here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contact/

Because this Huffington Post contact page has no exact feedback form to
Huffington editors, we imagine both the following e-mail addresses could
be relevant:

scoop a huffingtonpost.com 

info a huffingtonpost.com

Also, there's a web form there for 'corrections,' and Jaffe has a lot of
errors you can mention. It figures, since apparently he did not even
attend the event he's 'reporting' on. 

Please forward this alert to others who care about media bias in mental
health. 

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MFI is one of the few totally independent activist coalitions in mental
health advocacy. 

After 24 years of organizing, MFI is now one of the largest voice of and
for survivors of psychiatric abuse in history!

Please join, re-join or renew your MindFreedom International membership
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MFI gets NO funding from mental health industry, drug companies,
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That means MindFreedom International counts on YOUR donations:

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