{"id":2344,"date":"2011-03-01T23:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:28","slug":"charlie-sheen-and-bipolar-disorder-what-is-the-medias-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/charlie-sheen-and-bipolar-disorder-what-is-the-medias-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen and Bipolar Disorder. What is the media’s responsibility?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Where is the help for Charlie Sheen?<\/h1>\n

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I always like to write about those in the public eye who seem to have bipolar disorder.\u00a0 In this case, even I was unable to see what was going on. I’m a big fan of the Dan Patrick\u00a0 Show. It’s all about sports and Charlie Sheen has been a regular guest. A few weeks ago he started calling in himself and asking to be on the air.\u00a0 I heard two interviews. He didn’t sound manic- but he definitely sounded stressed and out of touch with the realities of drug and alcohol use- as\u00a0most of \u00a0us with mania have experienced.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Then I noticed him him on a few other shows and he looked terrible. I felt bad for him- it’s not ok for the media to exploit those who are ill. I could write more on this, but I feel that Joe Pompeo in his artilce below says it all. Let’s hope that Charlie gets help TODAY. Can you imagine if our mood swings were televised? Or if we had to see our loved one’s self destruct on television? That is what’s happening to him- and hopefully the media will see the role it has played in the sad situation. Here is Joe’s article:<\/p>\n

News outlets take flak for hyping Sheen spectacle<\/h1>\n

By Joe Pompeo<\/cite><\/p>\n

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The unhinged actor, whose associations with drugs, hookers and porn stars have kept him in the headlines since last fall, has given four major video interviews since CBS last week abruptly canceled his hit show, “Two and a Half Men.” And Sheen’s termination, fittingly enough, issued from yet another controversial media appearance–a radio interview in which Sheen repeatedly attacked the show’s creator.<\/p>\n

The latest round of\u00a0highly candid Sheen chats-with ABC News, NBC News, TMZ and CNN–has made for endlessly entertaining TV and online video, which have, in turn, fanned out into a constant stream of tweets and blog posts chronicling Sheen’s eccentric, at times utterly incoherent, ramblings. Indeed, Sheen-mania built to such a pitch that the star’s own longtime flack\u00a0resigned because “I’m unable to work effectively as his publicist.”<\/p>\n

But as producers and commentators continue to program evermore ranting Sheen footage, some media critics are taking issue with the whole spectacle. Sheen has clearly suffered some sort of mental disturbance, they insist, and \u00a0it’s unseemly for news professionals to keep using his outbursts to feed the 24\/7 news cycles.<\/p>\n

“They’re not just pointing at Charlie Sheen’s self-immolation, they are throwing gasoline on it, and with Sheen’s distress as obvious as it is, making accomplices of the audience,” wrote Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

“The coverage has become excessive, even dangerous,” the Poynter Institute’s Julie Moos agreed \u00a0echoing comments Monday \u00a0from Aaron Barnhart of the Kansas City Star: “It’s time for all the tabloid media to stop returning Charlie’s texts and calls. Instead, they should be using their journalism to identify the people around Charlie who can actually get him into a rehab facility — against his will if necessary — and then start badgering them to do something.”<\/p>\n

To read the entire article, click\u00a0\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Joe Pompeo for his great article.<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

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Where is the help for Charlie Sheen? <\/p>\n

I always like to write about those in the public eye who seem to have bipolar disorder. In this case, even I was unable to see what was going on. I’m a big fan of the Dan Patrick Show. It’s all about sports and Charlie Sheen has been a regular guest. A few weeks ago he started calling in himself and asking to be on the air. I heard two interviews. He didn’t sound manic- but he definitely sounded stressed and out of touch with the realities of drug and alcohol use- as most of us with mania have experienced.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed him him on a few other shows and he looked terrible. I felt bad for him- it’s not ok for the media to exploit those who [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}