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Madonna: Media Fanned Adoption Dispute

Madonna: Media Fanned Adoption Dispute
Justin Henine-Hardenne  |  by www.washingtonpost.com. All rights reserved. 1.03 | 3:43

NEW YORK -- Madonna says the news media fanned the controversy over her attempts to adopt a 13-month-old boy from the southeast African country of Malawi, and that the average person doesn't care about it.
"But when you throw in things like I'm a celebrity and I somehow got special treatment, or make the implication of kidnapping, it gets mixed into a stew, and it sells lots of papers," the singer told Time magazine in an interview for editions on newsstands Monday.


This photo, supplied by NBC News, shows Madonna being interviewed in New York Tuesday, Oct.

31, 2006, by NBC's Meredith Vieira . Madonna said that the father of the African boy she is trying to adopt refused her offer of financial assistance to help him keep his son. The interview aired on the "Today," television show, Wednesday, November 1, 2006 and another segment on Thursday, Nov.

2, 2006 and on NBC News' "Dateline" later Wednesday. (AP Photo/NBC News, Virginia Sherwood) (Virginia Sherwood - AP)

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"What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi," she said.


Madonna added that there was an element of nationalism and racism in the news media.
"There's a lot of Brits _ reporters on the street _ who've said 'Why don't you adopt a kid from Britain?' Or 'Why did you adopt a black child?

'" Madonna said.
She said she has not worked harder for anything in her life than in trying to adopt the boy, David Banda. She and her husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie, were granted an interim adoption order by Malawi's High Court last month.


The boy has joined her two children _ daughter Lourdes, 9, and son Rocco, 6 _ in England.

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