Saturday, February 18, 2012
Beer, Food, Fireplace: Mental Illness
Imagine you're writing an article on substance abuse and mental illness. Does a craft beer dinner in front of a roaring fire spring to mind? Apparently it does to the publishers if the Officer View - Law Enforcement web site.
While summarizing a Reuters report on mental illness, they selected the bucolic image in the screen shown above. The Reuters article, which does not use the beer picture, mentions, in passing, a higher rate of substance abuse among those with mental illness.
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I'm sorry, but an alcoholic isn't going to be drinking a beer that costs around $4 to $6 a pint. I think a nice shot of Natty Light can in front of a blaring TV would have been more apropos.
ReplyDeleteI hear you. Not sure what they were are thinking. Guess if they writing about gun owners they'd be making terrorist references. Oh wait...
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