“… hauling her ‘off to the nuthouse'” and
“… to spend some time in the nut house …”
Incomprehensible to use someone, who has a clear mental health issue, in an article about the class of supporters behind Republican candidate Donald Trump. See BooMan’s fp story – How the Crazy are Produced.
The author of the article, Stephanie McCrummen should have known better than to relate this woman to the presidential election campaign! Part of Washington Post National Enterprise Team – David Finkel and the Art of Immersion Reporting
Stephanie McCrummen: Immersion Reporting as a Means of Understanding | Austin Riggs Center |
Stephanie McCrummen, winner of the 2015 Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Coverage by the Media, speaks about her approach to journalism that includes “external reporting and internal reporting” and aims to “understand and ask a basic question, which is `What is like to be you; what is it really like to be you?'”
Her features have included a profile of a Virginia state senator whose son attacked him with a knife and then committed suicide. She also chronicled the nearly three-year journey of a man with severe mental illness who sequestered himself in his house and would not leave, to the agony of his family.
According to research by The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, which is a legislative Agency of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the poverty rate for Fayette County was 20.2% in 2014. The statewide poverty rate was 13.6% in 2014. The 2012 childhood poverty rate by school district was: Albert Gallatin Area School District – 61.4%, Brownsville Area School District – 64.7%, Connellsville Area School District – 55.7%, Frazier School District – 40.5%, Laurel Highlands School District – 59.9% and Uniontown Area School District – 55.1% of pupils living at 185% or below than the Federal Poverty Level.