I read great news about the media and mental illness today! There is now a section on how the media should use mental illness posted in the medias bible-AP Stylebook.
The now are addressing how the term mental illness is used and they need reliable sources to say he/she has/had a mental illness and if the mental illness is not relevant to the topic it should not be in the story. No more anonymous or vague allusions can be used as a source, and the terms must be specific. Now if the media follows though I will be grateful.
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