The New Era of Yellow Journalism

Yellow Journalism: n. Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. the practice of yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you today that we are in [...]

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Company’s Gone, Let’s Get Down to Business

It’s the first time in 9 days I’ve been able to sit down and get caught up with email and blogging … and boy has it been a crazy 9 days in AdoptionLand. I’ve got so much buzzing around in my head and I don’t know what to write here and what to write over [...]

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Accountibility

For the most part, since we started VVAI I try to keep my “soapbox” type posts over there. I mean, I think the discussion of ethics belongs on every adoption blog, but rather than double post it just makes sense for me to save those topics for the blog that is specifically about ethics in [...]

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here’s the thing

So I gave you a day to go read Jen/Chew’s blog. Now I want to talk about it. Because in some ways reading her story is like watching a plane crash… it’s horrible and upsetting, but if all we do is stand there saying “that’s awful” then it doesn’t help anyone. If we don’t learn [...]

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like I said…

Another week, another country in the news for adoption corruption.  This week it’s Nepal. This article explains,
among problems on child adoption from Nepal allegedly are fake documents and financial irregularities. Though orphanages present all documents required for letting an orphan be adopted, some of the documents are allegedly fake, he said.
… and it goes on [...]

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