First of all, happy birthday to Chally! (Actually technically her birthday is over at this point, because she lives IN THE FUTURE.)
BBC News: Ordeal of Australia’s child migrants
The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
Bitch Magazine: The Transcontinental Disability Choir: How to make your blog accessible in five not-very-complicated steps
But a few key things with your blog can make a big difference in who can read it.
This also applies to websites in general, in addition to blogs!
Los Angeles Times: Blogging moms wooed by food firms
Some companies are even offering free kitchen appliances, vacations, groceries and enough fruity snacks to feed a neighborhood’s worth of kids.
An incredibly biased article painting people who accept corporate handouts as innocent victims of those mean mean social justice activists. While accusing social justice folks of “attacking” mommy bloggers, the article makes no reference to Tweets from attendees in which jokes were made about child labour and slavery. (There is one quote from PhD in Parenting but it doesn’t balance this out in the slightest. Way to go, LA Times!)
PhD in Parenting: Helping Themselves: Breastfeeding Advice Nestle-Style (guest blog)
If a mother’s desire to nurse her baby, her trust in the process, or her confidence in her own abilities can be eroded then that is a win for Big Formula. Take a look at the pages that follow and you will see that those are precisely the types of subliminal messages (breastfeeding is difficult, painful, icky, and unnecessary) in Nestle’s breastfeeding information.
Independent: The 40 million children who just didn’t exist
…millions are at increased risk of being press-ganged as child soldiers or prostitutes, of not being returned to their families if liberated, of having only limited access to healthcare and education, and being deprived of their legal rights.
Wheelchair Dancer: Glee
Gosh, those disabled people must be so brave and so strong if even we, a cast of actors can’t do it. How do those poor disabled people manage?
I agree that a lot more could have been said in the LA Times article. One of the things the reporter asked me when she interviewed me was why I thought the twitter storm got so heated. I said:
“I think it got heated because the Nestle Family bloggers felt they were under attack and the critics of the Nestle Family event felt that some of the Nestle Family bloggers and some of their supporters were ignoring, minimizing or joking about the very serious issues raised with regards to infant deaths, slave labour, and other unethical business practices. “
Press interviews can be so frustrating because you never know how it will be presented in a finished piece; I think it’s awesome that you talked to the Los Angeles Times and it’s really unfortunate that the reporter couldn’t create a more balanced piece. I note that the Nestle Family blogger they interviewed was one of the worst offenders in terms of making jokes about racism, child labour, and slavery…and it’s really unfortunate that the article came off as “everyone is jealous of the lucky mommy bloggers” instead of “a group of people raised concerns about business ethics.” Hopefully folks will find their way to your site and get another facet of the story!