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What would happen if there were more news anchor using wheelchairs?
Written by Sean on Thursday, May 22, 1997
If there were a few wheelchaired regular news anchors and regular hosts on TV talk shows (daily rather than the occasional appearances of John Hockenberry), would that: (A) make it easier/harder for the run-of-the-mill wheelchair user to advance in business? (B) give the public a more/less realistic/accurate understanding of disability? (C) be window-dressing that most paras would resent?
(A) I think that it might the key is to show Chair users not as Supercrips or Tragic care cases but as ordinary folk doing a day’s work. My personal experience has been that simply being around the work environment has hugely increased the awareness of co workers to the potential of disabled workers.
(B) Done properly a more realistic understanding but when did the media ever portray anything realistically
(C) I fell that lots of paras and other disabled people resent the focus on the personal effects of the injury rather than the wider social exclusions which they face.
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