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...argues that paying for interviews is a legitimate way of competing with the networks, whose offer of prime-time national exposure carries more clout. "To level the playing field, we have to offer incentives to some people to come on our air." Some journalistic watchdogs agree that the traditional stigma against pay-for-play reporting may be breaking down -- and for good reason. "It's hard to argue that the ordinary person shouldn't share in the benefit of what's going to be a commercial product," says Everette Dennis, executive director of Columbia University's Freedom Forum Media Studies...
...homeless people suffer from alcoholism, drug abuse or mental illness. The authors' stated aim is to force society "to stop making distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving poor" and address the underlying problems head on. More often, their book has served to deepen the homeless stigma...
Understanding, mental health care and socio-economic support are so pitifully inadequate in part because few patients or families want to speak openly, facing social stigma and becoming objects of popular prejudice. Yet few others are in a position to understand or care enough to help the situation. It is bad enough to suffer such an illness without also enduring the ignorant and sometimes malicious speech and behavior of others. There are risks in speaking openly about one's condition, of course, but I have decided to bear such risks to provide a forceful personal testament which would be less...
Prejudice. The foremost reason that awareness and understanding are so weak in our society is that there is still quite a stigma carried by anyone labelled "mentally ill." Almost everyone at times, and some folks all of the time, will regard anyone labelled "mentally ill" with an uneasy fear of craziness. But the fact that a brain may fail to regulate a neurochemical at optimal levels has nothing whatsoever to do with personal worth or character evaluation. If anything, the mentally ill endure such huge obstacles to ordinary functioning that any particular level of achievement requires exceptional fortitude, striving...
Boston's used clothes industry, however, proves otherwise: there are gems to be found in this forgotten heap of hand-me-downs. "There is a stigma in American culture attached to buying used clothing, and customers are shocked that they find things they really like," says Kristie Russell of Strutter...