The media likes to report shocking things that will help them get interest into their article and get people to read it. Newspapers, like the S*n, don’t care how bad a light they paint potentially innocent or unfortunate people in and this can paint a negative light towards a certain race, culture or other things. They are only bothered about money and not people’s feeling and give a biased view towards everything. Most papers are ok though and can give two sides to a story.
I found an article from a newspaper website which showed how a Schizophrenic “hacked to death an innocent person with a meat cleaver”. The headline puts Schizophrenics in a bad light because it makes out that they are savages and creates a moral panic. It makes people think all Schizophrenics are capable of murder when infact it’s a very rare one-off incident. It also makes out that they are mentally stable by saying he was “sane” however this is an unrepresentative way to show how a schizophrenic is mentally. It says “he knew exactly what he was doing”. Schizophrenics suffer from hallucinations. A hallucination is when a person experiences a sensation but there is nothing or nobody there to account for it. A hallucination can involve any of the senses, but the most common is hearing voices. This would mean that the person would’ve struggled to understand what is reality and what’s not reality so this statement is false and unfair. As his lawyer described “his reality is nothing like any of you have ever experienced in your life.' Schizophrenics also have delusions which meant he could’ve feared for his life because he felt threatened by the women he murdered.
Later on in the article, in the smaller writing, it then gives his side of the story despite having been initially saying how he murdered an innocent women and it was basically nothing to do with his schizophrenia. The article almost