Women In Media & News guest blogger Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser's examination (3/12/09) of the "media firestorm" that "erupted… when Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets" shows that in initial "stories playing on the well-worn 'wow factor'"–like "the AP's piece, posted on Fox News' website, [that] bore a cutesy headline: '8 Is Definitely Enough'"–"basic information was missing: the mother's name, the doctor's name, and the specific medical treatment undergone," and "without that information, any medical ethics concerns remained wholly hypothetical." But then it turns out, eight wasn't enough. The story's focus morphed from medical oddity, to larger ethics questions, to gawking [...]