As I wrote last night, Friday's Today Show segment is bad , bad journalism, not only because it shamelessly attacks people, but because it lacks the journalistic integrity of unbiased and balanced reporting and fails to bolster its argument with substantive research (clue: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data"). NBC will receive hundreds, if not thousands of angry letters, including one from me. But (to quote Levar Burton) don't just take my word on it:
Iridescent tile makes all the difference - A very impassioned post relating the claptrap so many hospital administrators think we birthing mothers "need" to the name-calling in The Today Show segment. (Also, having just discovered this woman's blog, I am already a huge fan. She's made of awesome.)
Grassroots Network: Today Show in bed with ACOG - Susan's post is quick and to the point (*cough* unlike my own *cough*) and includes helpful links like this one so that we can email our thoughts on the segment to the people at The Today Show. I'm sure they'd love to hear from all of us. Multiple times. :)
Reality Rounds Calls a "Code Bullshit" on The Today Show - a great post from another one of my new favourite blogs (I've got to hand it to The Today Show: thanks to their shoddy, smarmy segment, I have discovered some fabulous blogs! So, thank you, I guess.) The comments to this post are particularly awesome, including one from a woman who has spoken with Catherine, the mother featured in the segment.
Physicians Take Anti-Midwife Smear Campaign to the Airwaves: Home Birth Mothers, Celebrities, Insulted on National TV - a pdf of The Big Push for Midwives press release in response to The Today Show's segment.
And last but most definitely not least:
Code Mec! Code Mec! - Rixa of Stand and Deliver calls a Code Mec (because it's icky and leaves a stain) on The Today Show, and delivers an extensive and superb meta-post of her own wherein you will find commentary on the segment and links to other responses.
And last but most definitely not least:
Code Mec! Code Mec! - Rixa of Stand and Deliver calls a Code Mec (because it's icky and leaves a stain) on The Today Show, and delivers an extensive and superb meta-post of her own wherein you will find commentary on the segment and links to other responses.
Found another response to the segment that you think I'd like to read: post a link in the comments! Written one yourself (perhaps you, too, have a blog?): post a link in the comments! I am perpetually expanding my blogroll. There's always room for more, so get in on the fun.
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