The link to the Leicester Mercury story proved useful. Clearly here was the original interview with pictures The Metro bought the notes and full photo set and rewrote it choosing different pictures to give it an entirely different agenda. Two vunerable people exploited for a few easy inches between the adverts. Sickening.
Whilst the LM article is marginally better, I'm still not sold.
It handles it in a slightly more mature way, but ultimately it is still sensationalising a person's mental weakness. Any justification about "publicising the general condition" I'd gladfully ramn back down the speaker's throat. If the article was about "Othello Syndrome" as a condition, citing these two as an example of how it can disrupt and complicate lives, fair enough, I may be on board with.
But it's not. The LM story is only marginally better than Metro, but there is still the undertone of marginalising, of highlighting the "funny", "interesting", or "weird" symptoms. He's been banned from watching women's razor commercials? How is that actually a relevant fact to the story, other than to sensationalise it?
Woman has problem, man stands by her and says we'll work through it, get married, live a normal life. Thats the actual story there. But no, the media wants to focus on the 'freak show' aspect. And they've done that purely because that's what people as a collective want to read - for whatever reason.
People's collective response to mental weaknesses makes me want to punch people collectively in the face.
