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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>Da: News and alerts from www.MindFreedom.org <mindfreedom-news@intenex.net><BR>Oggetto: MFI Update: Huffington Post Mental Health Media Bias<BR>A: mindfreedom-news@intenex.net<BR>Data: Sabato 2 ottobre 2010, 18:35<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica">Below is UPDATED and CORRECTED version of yesterday's alert. </DIV>
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<DIV> <SPAN class=yiv456078924Apple-tab-span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"> </SPAN>The Huffington Post Carries Attack on "Alternatives 2010" Mental Health Conference</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=yiv456078924Apple-tab-span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>ACTION: Ask Editors of Huffington Post For Fair Coverage of Mental Health</DIV>
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<DIV>by David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=yiv456078924Apple-tab-span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>BIAS AT THE HUFFINGTON POST</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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:</DIV>
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<DIV>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."</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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:</DIV>
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<DIV>IT'S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO CONTACT THE HUFFINGTON POST EDITORS, DIRECTLY. </DIV>
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<DIV>Ask a simple, strong, civil question. You can do this action without registering on their web site.</DIV>
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<DIV>A sample question to ask The Huffington Post -- though your own words are best:</DIV>
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<DIV>"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?"</DIV>
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<DIV>CONTACT The Huffington Post here:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contact/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contact/</A></DIV><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>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:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://it.mc297.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scoop@huffingtonpost.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:scoop@huffingtonpost.com">scoop@huffingtonpost.com</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Please forward this alert to others who care about media bias in mental health. <BR></DIV>
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