Aidan Moesby asks how do they get away with this 'quality journalism'?
14 February 2011
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Apples and Snakes posted a Facebook link to an article by Alex Hudson on BBC News entitled 'The Creative Process and Mental Illness'. The basic tenet is that mad equals creative. I really don't like these catch all assumptions and wrote the following brief retort. Is this really balanced and considered? Spare me from 'cheap journalism' that uses the link of madness and creativity/poetry These kind of articles peddle the usual stereotypical visions of the mad creative. Over diagnosing, reframing...