Ann Wilmer
Founding Member (since January 2008)I'm a journalism graduate of the University of Florida (M.Ed. at Salisbury University where I later taught). For many years I have followed adoption issues in the news because they affect me personally and I would like to make a positive contribution to how adoption is covered by the media.
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Adoption is a social phenomema that does not get critical media attention and it should since it is a largely unregulated industry whose commodity is human children.
It highlights the consequences of over zealous government officials and also the difficulties posed to adopted Americans because of adoption secrecy. NOrth Carolina is a sealed records state.
As an adoptee, I am particularly sensitive to reports of individuals whose citizenship is questioned because they do not have their original birth certificate.
This article explains a fundamental fact of how adoption functions as a vast, lucrative and largely unregulated industry. And this fact is generally overlooked when the media "covers" adoption.
As an adoptee, I have found the process, the desperate need for reform and the media's inadequate coverage of this social phenomena a source of ... More »
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N.C. native wrongly deported to Mexico
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It shows that despite the ubiquitous nature of mainstream media it fails to command the kind of respect journalists might hope. Obama's citizenship has been covered again and again and yet not every American believes it. Oh, Uncle Walter, we miss you!
It is good journalism because it teaches an important lesson about history: those who don't learn history's lessons are condemned to repeat them. Today's news is tomorrow's history but if the unpalatable truths are not reported, we will never learn from our mistakes. This reminds us WHY it is so important for the media to cover ALL the news, even some we might rather not read about.
It serves to remind us that when the representatives of our government get away with criminal behavior that they are emboldened to repeat it. If we ... More »
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Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney, Had No Congressional Oversight
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If only for Hersh's quote about how major newspapes pulled their punches during the Bush-Cheney years the article is well worth your time to read.
It's an important topic that is too often subject to less than balanced reporting, partly due to the hyperbole of proponents of abstinence only sex education and partly due to our pop celebrity culture.
I think it is unrealistic to expect teens to abstain from becoming sexually active before they are mature enough to recognize and deal with the ... More »
This is not really news anymore -- by the time a book goes to press the news is a bit stale by definition. Yet, I think it is fair to say that most ... More »
The writer speaks truth to power. He puts the actions of the Bush administration into historica context that makes clear how truly awful their policies have been.
…if the Roberts Court upholds dumping in streams, it will setting a destructive precedent for mountains and for clean water, unless the Obama Administration and ... More »
It's a reminder to American readers that even if you own the bat and ball, you cannot play the game alone.
I'm not sure it is quality journalism. It's a mediocre story, that is little more thn a string of numbers -- potentially interesting numbers but still. The author is apparently a numbers cruncher but, numbers alone lack depth.
I realize that the writer is someone who studies public opinon polling and what it tells us, but by their very nature, polls are snapshots in time ... More »
It's a re-hash of a soft-ball interview (what else might you expect from Fox). But it does give us fair warning that the Bushes want to try for #3.
It brings to to the reader's attention mch about the history ofthe Christian faith that we might not have known. I think it reminds the Pharisees among us that they go stray from the message of their own prophet.
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When Jesus met Buddha
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It's an interesting story that provides useful information and insight. I wish I could say that it imparted surprising insight into Republican-think, some suggestion that they grasp why they lost the election. Maybe if the writer had cast his net farther? Maybe not.
What Chait reports as the prevailing attitude of ordinary party faithful sounds depressingly like the opinions expresed in email I receive routinely ... More »
One of the shortcomings of MSM is that it lacks the interpretive dimension made possible by incorporating the viewpoints of the residents of countries at the recieiving end of U.S. foreign policy. And this does, in spades!




In addition to being a trained journalist, I am an adult adoptee working for adoption reform and for more objective and in-depth media coverage of ... More »