When Gelf headlined its coverage of a certain celebrity's recent Malawian adoption "Madonna and Child," we thought we were being clever, if slightly unoriginal. What we didn't realize was exactly how passé our headline was. A quick check of other media reports on the adoption story shows that several hundred other editors followed the exact same impulse.
Here's a sampling of publications that chose to go with the Biblical reference:
Birmingham Post
(This one isn't online, but it's titled: "Madonna and child …
and private jet, passport, visa, nanny and bodyguard")
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