grodscorp@grods.comBackhanded sympathy
 | Posted by Scott on Monday 18 August 2008, 1:47 pm Categories: Media Tags: Tags: AndrewBolt, BipolarDisorder, CatherineDeveny, TimBlair |
The Age columnist and prime Bolt/Blair target, Catherine Deveny, might have bipolar disorder.
Timmeh shows sympathy and calls a ceasefire.
Deveny’s columns… are a frequent target here. No more. Assuming the above account is accurate—it’s unlikely someone would joke about a bipolar diagnosis—Deveny isn’t well.
Fair play, Tim. A credit to you. Andrew Bolt then agrees with Blair (surprise, surprise), albeit a little more crudely.
An unhappy columnist who writes what seems to me a plea for help, and who confesses she is indeed in trouble, should not be kept in harness by a newspaper hoping to win extra sales from her growing despair.
However, I can’t help thinking that Bolta (and to a lesser degree, Timmeh) are suggesting that Deveny’s assumed illness is somehow responsible for those opinions that the groupthinking duo so despise. Is it not possible that Deveny can have a mental illness and still have perfectly valid opinions, unshaped by that mental illness?
This is all assuming, of course, that Deveny does have bipolar.
ELSEWHERE: Darryl Mason deconstructs teh issue more detailedly.
