MISC> Sport's Celebrity and Mental Illness: The Media Role
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- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:50:25 -0600
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:08:23 -0500 (EST)
ARTICLE: Sport's Celebrity and Mental Illness: The Media Role
This article from a journalism organization discusses the failure of an
Oakland Raider player to play in the Super Bowl due to mental illness and
some critical comment regarding how this situation should have been
handled by the press.
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Doc on Zoloft
Posted, Feb. 10, 2003
Updated, Feb. 11, 2003
<http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=1&aid=20081>
By now, much of America knows that an all-star football player named
Barret Robbins, center for the Oakland Raiders, was not permitted to play
in the Super Bowl. His wife had him hospitalized, and there were reports
of a suicide watch.
<snip>
When the Raiders got crushed (a sweet verb!) by the Bucs in the Super
Bowl, Robbins became a scapegoat for the black and silver horde. Several
teammates condemned him in public, as if he was a cowardly soldier who had
gone AWOL in the heat of battle.
<snip>
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But because he suffers from a mental illness, a chemical imbalance in his
brain, he became fair game for insult and accusation.
This event should have presented sports journalists with an opportunity to
do some serious reporting on mental illness, especially the nature of
bipolar disorders. The best Doc heard came from a sports radio talk show
host in Tampa, known as "The Big Dog," Steve Duemig, who invited listeners
to call in if they had firsthand knowledge of what it meant to be bipolar.
The accounts from patients, family members, and caregivers were
illuminating.
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