Scott's Side: The Media Project: Listen on Monday, November 12th at 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Media Project: Listen on Monday, November 12th at 3:00 p.m.

Thanks so much to everyone who has responded everywhere - and a special thanks up in Albany. The Media Project on WAMC aired a letter written by a friend up there. You can hear it again tomorrow at 3 p.m here: http://www.wamc.org/prog-media.html

It doesn't look like archives are up yet for tonight's show, hope they are soon.

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Circus said...: The episode is now up on the archive. You can listen to it here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1181748§ionID=658 (it's show number 858; click the Listen MP3 icon).; November 12, 2007 at 10:19 AM

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You can help by writing to the editors of the News-Times and letting them know their shoddy journalism has gone too far. Link and distribute this site to others, especially those who picked up the AP story and published or broadcast it not knowing what it really was, to help fight against the stigma of mental illness.

On November 6, 2007 The News-Times of Danbury, CT ran a story titled "Police: No smoking applies to pot, too." Mr. Pirro's story takes the jocular tone of a story from "News of the Weird", we all get a laugh out of it and marvel that somebody could be so stupid - it's all set up in his first sentence of the article - "Who said smoking pot can make you stupid?" It all sounds funny and absurd, except that Mr. Pirro failed to get the whole story.

It may interest Mr. Pirro and the editors at the News-Times to know that Scott has suffered from a major mental illness most of his life and was diagnosed at age 12. Unfortunately, at the time of the incident, Scott was in the middle of a breakdown and was in fact hospitalized one day later when his breakdown came to its peak.

Not only does the irresponsible printing of this piece have specific ramifications for Scott and his family, but it is a major blow to anyone who suffers from, or cares for someone who suffers from, mental illness.

Scott's story highlights the lack of compassion and understanding for those with a mental illness, the poor state of health care in this country, and ineffectual, costly and detrimental mandatory minimum sentencing, as he faces a two-year jail term and will be unable to present his case to a judge.

It is fortunate that Mr. Pirro, Capt. Myles, and anyone else who has had a laugh at Scott's expense will never understand the pain that mental illness brings - not only to those who suffer with it - but also to the family and friends who care for them as well. They cannot understand until they find themselves with a loved one like Scott.

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