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Risky News, Madness and Public Crisis

A Case Study of the Reporting and Portrayal of Mental Health and Illness in the Australian Press

Warwick Blood

University of Canberra, WarwickBlood{at}canberra.edu.au

Kate Holland

University of Canberra, Kate.Holland{at}canberra.edu.au

This case study investigates the central role of news frames in constructing risk knowledge for newspaper readers. In Brisbane in 2001-02, a psychiatric patient absconded from a city mental health facility and within a month a second patient had absconded from another facility. A mental health tribunal had previously judged each man as medically unfit to stand trial for separate murders they had committed. The media coverage culminated in a complaint to the Australian Press Council, which resolved the concerns by mediation. The study has implications for how Australian and other western news media routinely frame people diagnosed with mental illness.

Key Words: mental illness • news framing • risk knowledge • risk theory

Journalism, Vol. 5, No. 3, 323-342 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1464884904044940
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