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Today in Journalism: Oh, I’ll Redefine Something For You, All Right

By s.e. smith on 10 November, 2010

The Wall Street Journal has apparently been so sad that it’s been missing out on all the potential in disability reporting that it decided to go right for a bingo, do not pass go, do not collect $200. And I would like us all to issue a round of applause to Ben Rooney, because he [...]

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Today In Journalism: Simply Overcome

By s.e. smith on 21 July, 2010

As soon as I saw the headline ‘Local overcomes disabilities‘ pop up, I knew this article would be worthy of a ‘Today In Journalism’ feature at FWD, because, folks, this article has it all. I’m not going to blame Judy Sheridan, the author, for the title, because most journalists don’t write their own headlines1; the [...]

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Today In Journalism: Do You Feel Special? Well? Do You?!

By s.e. smith on 3 July, 2010

Content warning: This post includes a discussion of an article that frames disability in extremely patronising, offensive, and infantalising objectifying (note) terms. There will be selections from said article quoted for the  purpose of criticism and discussion. I’ve been noticing an uptick in really, really bad articles about disability lately. I was puzzling last night [...]

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