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I have been known to blather on and on on my blogs, both the International and Older Parent Adoption Blogs, about celebrities, adoption, and the media warp that manifests every time someone with a household name decides to add to their family by adopting a child.
I take it all quite personally, actually, when reporters slam adoptive parents, famous or no, and go to the lengths they do to slur the reputation of adoption and to smear a picture of something often quite sweet into a monstrous mash.
Angelina Jolie and Madonna have faces people recognize and bits of personal history that have been condensed, construed, confused, dispersed, disseminated and digested so widely and often that a completely inappropriate familiarity is assumed.
Having spent a good deal of my professional life working in the world of TV news, I have a grip on the infotainment industry and suffer no illusions about motivations or agendas, and have come across more than my share of pin-headed morons that tote blow dryers like side arms.
Is this why I am getting such a chuckle … actually a roll-around-on-the-floor belly laugh, complete with tears and pleasing after-glow, from the recent news out of Malwai?
Sorry, boys and girls, but the mental image conjured by reports of Malawian orphans pelting the gaggles of journalists trying to descend on Madonna with rocks just cracks me up. I’m totally creased by the idea of 500 orphans supported by Raising Malawi chucking rocks at people harassing their benefactor.
And ya gotta luv the spin … the local reporter who was quoted as saying, “I didn’t expect that this would come from the orphanage. I thought they would have handled it better rather than mobilise the orphans to throw stones at international journalists.”
Mobilize the orphans? Ha! And I suppose he would have figured they’d not have the temerity to cast stones at INTERNATIONAL journalists.
Go figya.
Anderson Cooper! Incoming!
Is it just me or is that oddly cool?
I guess I wish they had thrown something other than rocks, but with little/no food, tomatoes/eggs were out of the question.
L.
I think it’s downright totally cool.
And, Lisa, that’s why the photo is of elephant poop.
Anderson Cooper! Incoming!
You are so funny (-:
I read this story, too. Like Lisa, I’d rather it hadn’t been rocks, but it is amusing!
And indeed – INTERNATIONAL reporters – yup the ones that manage to spread some of their twisted stories like a plague ALL over the world. They sure aren’t just any old reporters!