Jennifer Forde directed and produced the Retro Report. That’s Meryl Streep as Chamberlain from the 1988 film, 'A Cry in the Dark.' The latest Retro Report examines Chamberlain’s trial, conviction, and eventual exoneration, stretched over 30 years, and the media circus that surrounded it. and to this day persists in the popular imagination, thanks to one unexpected exclamation: The episode scandalized a nation, but also came to enthrall the world. Chamberlain claimed the baby had been snatched from the tent by an indigenous wild dog called a dingo. In 1982, Chamberlain was convicted in an Australian court of murdering her 9 week old infant daughter, Azaria, who had vanished on a family camping trip in the outback.
#The dingo ate my baby movie series
Our coverage begins with a story revisited this week in the New York Times online documentary series Retro Report: the strange, tragic case of Lindy Chamberlain. Indeed, in this segment we find explore many examples of news subjects - especially women - whose identities are co-opted and defined and even hijacked by media narratives entirely beyond their ability to influence. I never had Ebola, so please stop calling me “the Ebola Nurse” – now!īOB: Thing is, there is no such thing as headline due process and no media judge to save the day. I am now past the incubation period – meaning that I will not develop symptoms of Ebola.
I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s private prison in Newark. In a Guardian essay this week, Hickox wrote, quote: But now she’s fed up with the ongoing stigma. she's saying today about her nickname and why she doesn't want that nickname anymore”īOB: Yes, she chafed at being reduced to an anonymous bit player in a fear-fueled melodrama. TAPE: “nurse Kaci Hickox has been dubbed the so-called Ebola Nurse. Hickox isn’t willing to lose her freedom of movement and her identity in the same month. She is Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was subjected to involuntary quarantine imposed by two governors against expert medical advice - until she was sprung by a judge who’d read The Constitution. TAPE: The vow not to put the Ebola nurse' little dog to sleep.Īn odd, if not exactly surprising double standard, but one mere female healthcare worker is having none of it. They were more like a household….generic. That's how we're going to solve this problem.īOB: Not quite the same for nurses who became infected. TAPE: For everyone Craig Spencer, we need 100 Craig Spencers to get over there. TAPE: The patient is Craig Spencer, this man, he's a doctor who recently returned. TAPE: Good evening, I'm Jim Rosenfeld, that doctor's name Craig Spencer
Craig Spencer returned from West Africa, infected with Ebola from treating patients there, he was a household name.