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Mental Distress and Public Representation Notes 1 Madness and the Popular Imagination 1. Despite the change of headline, the paper’s editor Rebbekah Wade was unprepared for the backlash from mental health and psychiatric user groups. Using press releases and Internet chat forums, the editor encoun- tered a storm of national and international protest about its stigmatizing of Bruno. So much so in fact, that the next day Bruno received the paper’s good wishes for his recovery (though no public apology) and a commit- ment to financial help. So apparently contrite was the Sun that it was reported that Marjorie Wallace of SANE would educate Wade in mental health issues (although ironically Wallace/SANE have been criticised by service users for their own stigmatizing media promotional practices – see Crossley, 2006, pp.192–9). 5 Visualising Madness: Mental Distress and Public Representation 1. Panorama: ‘Whose Mind Is It Anyway’ (broadcast BBC1, 1 March 1993). Panorama is the longest-running public affairs TV programme in the world. Broadcasting since 1965, it currently gets around five million view- ers and is still considered the BBC’s ‘flagship’ current affairs programme. 2. Disguises: ‘A Place of Safety’ (broadcast ITV, 25 February and 4 March 1993). Made by Granada TV, Disguises was launched in 1993 as the series that can ‘get to parts of a story others can’t reach’ (Granada publicity material for Disguises, March 1993). However, the format provoked strong reaction from critics concerned that its ‘voyeuristic’ appeal based on jour- nalist subterfuge and ‘spying’ with a hidden camera outweighed its public service merit (see Corner, 1995, pp.100–1). 3. Video Diaries: ‘Mad, Bad or Sad?’ (broadcast BBC2, 14 September 1994). Made under the auspices of the BBC’s Community Programmes Unit (CPU), Video Diaries’ camcorder-based format was a major advance in broadcasting the testimony of people under-represented, misrepresented or ignored by mainstream television (Dovey, 1991). Towards the end of its run in 1999, the CPU was accused of ignoring its remit of accessing marginal voices and selecting diarists with more avowedly ‘sensational’ interests. 4. Scotland has a separate legislative process within the political context of Great Britain. However, Scotland also introduced mental health care in the community in 1993. 182 Notes 183 5. The expression ‘the lunatics have taken over Stretford’ can also be taken as a satirical comment on the ambiguous impact of the care in the commu- nity policy. 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