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Lori Vallow-Daybell and The Murders of Her Children

  I had not intended on doing this case just quite yet. There are so many layers to this case and so much more to be seen yet through the courts. My previous blog site was established enough that I could add cases that were older and unknown and well quite honestly shorter and easier to put together. So initially I was thinking as I did a re-launch that the more stories I got out, the better to get it off the ground. While I do share the links on my person Facebook page as well as the page from the old blog, that is the only traffic it will see unless someone is looking for something specific. And let's face it people are not searching for obscure older cases, they are searching the cases that are in the news and current or a least still in the minds of people. This is another case where I have started, erased and started again more than once. My goal was to tell the story like I do in so many other cases and then analyze it. I was attempting to simply concentrate on th...

Yellow Journalism, What is it? Is it Still Here? And Who Do We Trust?

In an earlier post I pointed out that I am an “80's girl” so that tells you around what era I grew up in. I am sure that many readers may be older than I am and remember this era but I am just as sure that there will be younger readers who were not alive in that era. I point this era out because, at least in my opinion, it seemed or felt like the only real “sensational” journalism we saw were the tabloids that you saw at the registers at the grocery stores. They were considered to be the “trash” magazines. The National Enquirer was the big one. Most of their stories revolved around celebrities and their lives. Then there was The Sun, which at the time I did not realize was the name of a major newspaper in the UK, that showed the sensational stories like “half man/half woman found” (yes, I just made that title up). Magazines like People and Time were also located in that area but they were much more respectable than either of them are today. And while I obviously cannot te...