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Stop press!: how the press portrays disabled people
- Authors:
- COOKE Caroline, DAONE Liz, MORRIS Gwilym
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Television and the newspapers also have a strong influence on the way we think, so it is important to be aware of the language used in press reports. This often carries subtle messages about the subject that we may not even realise are there. Scope, the charity that works with people who have cerebral palsy, carried out an eight-week study of local and national papers in 1991. It found that there was a clear pattern to disability stories. For example, there were no disabled sports stories in the sports pages of any national newspaper, except for one story about a disabled horse-rider. However, disabled sports people who 'managed to take part in sport 'despite their disability did appear in other sections of the paper. There was very little coverage of the way society treats people with disabilities. And there were very few stories written by or for people with disabilities, despite the fact that there are over 8 million disabled adults in the UK.