Posted on 05/01/2016 4:34:50 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
CHICAGO - It's hard to imagine what Morgan Hill is feeling right now. She's not quite sure herself. How can you possibly process the fact you were born, wrapped in a towel, put into a trash bag and left in a dumpster to die - all before you were a day old?
Morgan's parents told her that she was adopted when she was young, but didn’t give details. They knew she wanted to know more, and planned to tell her after high school graduation.
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Morgan’s biological mother had hidden her pregnancy, delivered quietly at home and then tried to get rid of the baby so no one would know.
Morgan learned she’d been found in a dumpster, tied up in a trash bag double knotted at the top.
She’d been left to die.
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She read how a construction worker named Garold Hyatt - known to his friends as Rocky - found her while taking a last load out to the dumpster. He heard a whimper. And then heard it again. The compilation of articles all described the same thing. He moved closer to the sound and then saw a white trash bag twitch. He got nervous and ran to the nearby hospital for help.
Three nurses came running. One of them, Carol Szafranski, opened the bag and saw a healthy, blue-eyed baby girl inside.
The multitude of articles described how nurses named her Mary Grace, how authorities caught her biological mother, who was sitting in jail awaiting a trial, and how her biological father never even knew there was a baby until the mother named him in court.
(Excerpt) Read more at kshb.com ...
In the story, the TV channel doing the story arranges for Morgan Hill to meet her rescuer and the medical personnel who cared for her. It was great she was able to meet them, but I also found it disturbing how it was pretty transparently played for the sake of ratings. The news itself, especially TV news, is becoming more and more like reality TV, and the news media even crassly turn their coverage of tragic events and the problems of their on-air personalities into advertisements. Meanwhile actual news gets squeezed out or distorted, "feelings" and liberal personal opinions get injected.
Why would a woman be thrown away and left to die, while a baby was meeting it’s rescuers?
I thought the same thing...what awful wording! Are copy editors extinct?
If you had read the story you would know the answer. The woman is the baby that was thrown away. She is now, as a woman, meeting those who rescued her, for the first time.
Woman, thrown away and left to die as a baby, meets her rescuers for the first time.
Thank God for the good Samaritans.
Eats shoots and leaves.
Yes, reading the article explains what is meant by the awful headline, but I think the person you are responding to was just trying to make a point about how poorly the headline is written.
Wonderful story. I think you’re a bit too harsh on the local media for their portrayal of the event. Local news stations are not anywhere near as sophisticated as national networks. I thought they did a nice job of surprising Morgan Hill with her rescuers and at the end, highlighted her new focus on the Safe Haven options for pregnant women.
Titles like this are sometimes written in this fashion to compel people to read the article to see what the heck the article is about.
“Wonderful story. I think you’re a bit too harsh on the local media for their portrayal of the event. Local news stations are not anywhere near as sophisticated as national networks. I thought they did a nice job of surprising Morgan Hill with her rescuers and at the end, highlighted her new focus on the Safe Haven options for pregnant women.”
You won’t find me saying too many positive things about the media, but I agree. Both the girl and the guy who saved her wanted to meet each other again, and the TV station made that possible. Plus, as you say, the story creates publicity for the Safe Haven programs. Win, win... and win.
Why did you use that blurry font? Oh, wait ...
If spellchecker doesn’t find it, it goes through.
Let's eat Grandma.
or....
Let's eat, Grandma.
Punctuation Saves Lives!
Can’t they rescue a baby without throwing away a woman and leaving her to die?
LOL, or at least the appearance.
I understand where you’re coming from, but the “serious” news industry has deliberately been playing to people’s emotions more and more in recent decades, and we’re seeing the results of them using emotional manipulation as standard practice: that emotional manipulation replaces news, and the media openly justify advocating for secular humanist “causes” largely on the basis of emotions.
On this story, I read the article before viewing the video, and the article makes apparent that the news reporter was going to put herself in the story rather than keeping some distance (which was not long ago considered unethical).
I do believe Morgan Hill’s story and the cause of safe havens deserve attention, and that the t.v. station did its job properly in finding the construction worker and nurse who found her. It was even fine to put the reunion on camera (the story says Morgan’s mother paid for the construction worker and his wife to fly to meet them).
What’s troubling is putting the moment of reunion on camera as they did, to milk the emotion of it. In the reporter’s account of doing the story, she seems focused on Morgan producing tears for the camera - something that the TV news industry must know by now sells well. I did tear up myself as I read the story, but at that part of the story, which shows how the station was concerned with getting a product, I was troubled.
Thank you posting the link. I had wanted to see if I could find such an article but hadn’t had the time to yet.
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