media bites towel

Dawn Eden comments last evening on NPR’s Persistently Deceptive State and I add this NPR shush job to a growing pile of exasperating Main Stream Media news stories on the subject of Terry Schindler-Schiavo. It’s just bizarre that the MSM persists in obscuring the man-bites-wife storyline here, repeatedly assuring us, “no, this is definitely a classic case of dog bites feeding tube.”

Here is the story of a husband who was the only person present at his wife’s collapse, medical documentation of trauma that could be consistent with strangulation, distraught family members who’ve begged said husband to leave off, divorce her, and let them provide Terry’s care, and yet said husband has consistently fought to deny them that priviledge, going so far as to refuse to let her priest visit her and at one point even denying visitation rights to the members of her own family, all the while waging a legal battle to have her starved and dehidrated to death by edict of the courts of the state of Florida all on the basis of a “living will” (MSM, can you spot the irony?) which in turn is based on a conversation which said husband claims he had with his wife. If that isn’t provocative enough a story, a sizable medical malpractice settlement hangs in the balance.

And we’re supposed to believe, after the rampantly speculative coverage of the OJ and Scott Peterson trials, that they just don’t see a story here? The story is rapidly becoming the MSM: they have all the overtones of Dan Rather obsessing about journalistic integrity. Preposterous! Quit plumping for Terry’s right to be forceably starved to death, MSM, and report the damned news already!