disability

The SPJ article covering the disability issues says that there are 20 percent of the US population that either have a physical or mental disability. And they are right in their statement that when most people think about diversity we think of race and gender and tend to neglect other things since we are so consumed with those two topics. When i think of disability i think of two types of situations, the tragic tale and the motivational story. But there isn't an in between... and I think that's because that medium isn't really expressed through the media. And that is something that the SPJ article addresses. SPJ also gives various ways to re approach someone with disability and to gain knowledge about disabilities as well. It is time to not show a disability as either a negative or a positive characteristic but simply as a characteristic which shouldn't be judged or exploited by a journalist or anyone else for that matter.