Disability is shown everywhere in the media, from TV to News Papers to the radio. Disability is mainly conveyed positively in the media. The Paralympics for example, shows how people with a disability can still compete and fight for their medals and titles. The Paralympics is a good example of positive portrayal of them. It also shows equality between the disabled and non disabled people.
In my opinion, i think Family Guy, a cartoon 'for grown ups', gives Joe, a handicapped man an authoritative role because he's a police officer. Because it's a comedy, they also almost mock him by showing him that he cant swim, sleep with his wife or keep control of his body like the time he fell off the train and his friends laughed. He still gets treated fairly and equally by his friends though. Family Guy conveys Joe as how any other disabled person should/would be treated (to an extent).
In this picture, we can see that even though Peter (left) is Joes friend, Joe's still taking his job seriously. We also realise that Joe is a police officer on a wheelchair. Thats not something we'd see everyday but i think it's a good portrayal of equality.
Disability has been spoken about in the media more than it would've been 20 years ago. I think now media shows that disabled people are getting treated equally. In 2010, Disability and Equality act was introduced to in-force equality with employment, education and many more.
