More than anything else, the Terri Schindler story is the death of the mainstream (broadcast) media; they've failed completely in covering the landmark event of the year -- not because of the conventional drama of armies on the march, but because they have no language and emotion for communicating this story. It's not about ideology; it is about compassion. The story is not so much about Terri -- as it is about the different responses to the facts, and what people regard as the facts, from their own experiences and understanding of life. The subject herself is almost the perfect Rohrschach ink blot. It's ultimately not about Terri -- but about everybody else.
The best the mainstream media can come up with is their bogus polls, "As you may already know..." What a presumption; we don't know, and the more one knows, the less one could say that it is merely a matter of a right to die issue; it is a right to die versus a right to live -- and which should trump which. Apparently to a lot of liberals, the right to die should trump the right to live only in the case of human beings but should be inviolable in the case of anything else -- even trumping the right of any other species over that of a human, so confused are they, so determined to be "right." It's not about rights or who is right. It is about what is human.
The richness in the discussion of this is where the new media of interaction vastly surpasses their laughable polling feedback which is already so biased in their design and intent. The death of Terri Schindler was the death of the mainstream media to be a viable, credible part of American life. To the end, they insisted on telling the people, vastly more intelligent, informed and compassionate than they are, what to think and how empty it was to be them. They had nothing worth learning about -- to be a better human being.
#17 What an insightful analysis...
Very good analysis.
You are good. "The writing speaks for itself".
I would think that this is a landmark event in the history of our country....
Investigative journalism is DEAD. The concept of a President running the country is DEAD. The concept of a Governor running his state is DEAD. The concept of '...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...' is DEAD. After the robed SOB's and a greedy 'estranged husband' succeed in murdering Terri, I would bet a dollar to a donut that the county coroner will not order an autopsy to determine if any foul play had occurred in this poor lady's life.....
And her death certificate will probably list cause of death as PVS rather than 'starved to death by the courts'........