Winter Fundraiser, Cheaper And Better Than The Washington Post
Another $136.26 from four people came in yesterday bringing the total raised so far to $1,348.26 from 33 people. Thanks to all of you who’ve contributed so far. There’s another $2,651.74 from 77 people to go to reach the overall goal of $4,000 from 100 people by some time around December 18th.
Yesterday, I suggested that a bunch of readers donating $10 to $20 per person could reduce that remainder quite quickly. A commenter had another way of putting it:
“$20.00 a quarter is less than $0.22 a day. The Washington Post is $0.75 a day now.
“Just a thought.”
That’s a pretty apt way of putting it. These days a hard copy of the New York Times runs $2 in Seattle ($6 on Sunday). Seen any comprehensive coverage of mental health issues in either paper lately? Probably not. Like a lot of newspapers in this country, both institutions have shed reporters at a remarkable rate and have fewer pages upon which to write (something I take zero pleasure in watching from afar) and both have scaled back writing about mental health issues. So have a lot of other major metro newspapers for much the same reasons. Certainly, you don’t see much of anything about mental health on TV news and you hear very little on radio. Major magazines are largely asleep to these issues as well, although I hear a very pro-ECT piece has just run in a big women’s magazine (I’ll get on it as soon as it becomes available online).
What I’m telling you is that the media has essentially ceded the field to me–not completely of course, but did any of them even note the recent Depakote for kids on ADHD stimulants study? Nope. Would they have questioned it if they had? Not sure.
So if you’d like to see someone out here in Internet land continuing to cover these issues, then please support this site. The PayPal button is on the right. If you prefer snail mail, send me an email and I’ll send you my mailing address.
Thanks in advance for your support.
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