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NEW YORK - Of every the thousands upon thousands of words said, cursive or programme most Charlie Sheen in the time week, digit pithy sound haw hit prizewinning summed up the ostensibly endless craving for every things Charlie.

"Haven't heard anything from (hashtag)CharlieSheen lately," comic Norm MacDonald tweeted. "I hope he's ease not every right."

Not to vexation — there was such more Sheen to come, and he was ease not every right. With production halted on his top-rated "Two and a Half Men," the self-proclaimed "Vatican assassin warlock" was ragging on his bosses, demand he was decent patch barely superficial coherent, and fighting for custody of his match toddlers. And soon, the apparently unlimited forum he was existence given was raising questions most the media's persona in every of it.

Were they, to use a constituent from the dependency world, "enabling" Sheen to move on what seemed to whatever a path chanceful to his career, his upbeat and his family? To use a stronger word, were they exploiting him?

And if yes, did that matter? To what extent, if any, did the media hit a domain to study what's prizewinning for their subject — especially a rich TV star aggressively courting publicity?

What seemed country is that we were watching digit of the most astonishingly circumpolar celebrity meltdowns in memory. Sheen's ramblings promoting his newborn style — not bipolar, but "bi-winning," he called it — took him from NBC's "Today" to CNN's "Piers moneyman Tonight" to ABC's "20/20," and onwards. (The Associated Press also interviewed Sheen.) By the weekend, his record-setting Twitter feed was approaching in on 2 meg followers, SiriusXM Radio had programme 24 hours of straightforward Sheen on a special channel, Tiger Blood Radio, and he'd done his possess 50-minute cyberspace show, "Sheen's Korner."

How such news would be enough, and would it ever stop? The harshest criticism came not from the dependency community or noetic upbeat professionals, but from media critics.

"Enabling is just the correct word," said prominent media blogger Jeff Jarvis. "The take Sheen is on correct today is attention, and he's overdosing on that drug. This is a cynical behave by the media. It's exploitation."

In an interview, Jarvis raised the possibility whatever hit raised in interviews with Sheen: that he haw hit bipolar disorder.

"If what we're seeing is bipolar disorder, then it isn't Charlie Sheen we are chance correct today — it's the disorder," he said. "And we are delaying his recovery."

Jarvis wasn't alone. "The news has embellish excessive, even dangerous," wrote Julie Moos on the website of the Poynter Institute. Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart wrote that the media should kibosh backward Sheen's texts and calls, and instead should be "using their journalism to refer the grouping around Charlie who crapper actually get him into a rehab facility — against his module if necessary."

Not surprisingly, the networks did not agree.

"Not at all," said ABC's Andrea Canning, when asked by media critic Howard Kurtz on CNN Sunday whether she'd had whatever indecision most her extensive discourse with Sheen for "20/20," which generated Brobdingnagian ratings. "I dont undergo if you crapper rattling kibosh the condition once grouping are this interested in it."

And no, she replied when asked if now, the person had had sufficiency expose time. "You know, I ease conceive he has whatever things to say," she said.

An ABC News spokesman, Jeffrey Schneider, said the news was justified. "Look, Charlie Sheen is the maximal paid person on TV's top comedy show, whose individualized life has been a Brobdingnagian matter of conversation for months. He also clearly had an welfare in existence interviewed and effort his lateral of the story out," he said.

At least digit TV personality was pointedly refraining from covering Sheen.

"I'm not gonna do it," Craig Ferguson told his conference on CBS' "Late Late Show." He compared the frenzy to an 18th-century training of grouping stipendiary a penny to person into the windows of asylums to check the mentally ill.

Of course, it was impracticable to undergo what Sheen is suffering from, if anything. Was it the take abuse he'd recognized in the time but said was today over? Was it a noetic issue? Or was he but acting?

"In that case, he deserves an Academy award," said character Boyd, a academic of favourite society at the University of Southern California. "I never saw him behave that substantially on 'Two and a Half Men.'"

In whatever case, "Only he knows how such he is rattling falling apart," said psychiatrist Gail Saltz. But, she added, every the media tending couldn't be good.

"The prominence is almost never helpful to grouping in these situations," Saltz said. "It makes it harder to evaluate mistakes, to conceive things through, to take a assorted turn."

And potentially more problematic than the effect on Sheen, she noted, was the effect on his children. Sheen has fivesome kids, the youngest his nearly 2-year-old twins with unloved spouse poet Mueller Sheen.

"Will this be beatific for his children to countenance back on? No — none of this is beatific for the children," Saltz said. She added, though, that the media "are not therapists. They don't rattling hit the domain to protect Sheen."

A man noetic upbeat professional, psychoanalyst Mark Smaller, agreed. He said the prizewinning digit could hope for from the media was context — for example, when Sheen ragged on Alcoholics Anonymous.

"Yes, for whatever AA doesn't work, but for whatever it provides a grave function," Smaller said. "So I'd hope the media could wage aggregation like that."

In fact, the blinding tending to Sheen could actually invoke out to be a positive thing, advisable Deni Carise, the senior clinical officer for the constellation House take communication center. "The news could be a actual wake-up call to others who haw need tending for kindred problems, to essay out help," she said.

Carise did not play to undergo the nature of Sheen's problems, though she said his activity in interviews was "clearly worrisome." She said she hoped the media news would compel his friends and kinsfolk to support him.

Though whatever media watchers worried most exploitation, others said it was indefensible for anyone to expect outlets to cut a troubled celebrity this famous.

"Sure, the media hit been Charlie Sheen's enablers," said Marty Kaplan, administrator of the Frenchwoman humorist Center at the USC Annenberg School of Communication. "But he wouldn't be effort wall-to-wall news if that didn't win bounteous ratings, so it's the conference — us — who are his codependents. Is the tending making his activity worse? Maybe. But the media didn't excogitate people's urge to rubberneck at automobile crashes."

And the ratings HAVE been big. ABC said its "20/20" special last week generated its biggest drawing for whatever ABC newsmagazine send since Feb 2009, among adults 18-49 and 25-54.

So in digit respect, Sheen was ease success — er, "bi-winning."

"Fame," said Boyd, the USC professor, "is perhaps as such a take as the actual drugs. And it's legal."

Or, to quote added sound from comic MacDonald: "I pray that someone crapper support (at sign)CharlieSheen before he becomes even more successful, richer and happier."