Media Bias on Schiavo Case

aim.org ^ | April 11, 2005 | Cliff Kincaid

[TheRobb7]

It's all in how you ask the question.

[jdm]

"Terri Schiavo .... has been on life support for 15 years."

Life support? WTF?

[murdoog]

This is pretty bad. AFAIK, she hasn't even been on a feeding tube for 15 years.

[CyberAnt]

And .. we are well aware that the slimy media words their questions to get the exact answer they want for their polls. That's why we should never be swayed by any media poll - even FOX.

[Earthdweller]

My compassionate side wants to believe that the MSM were just a bunch of ignorant parrots in this case but my realistic side tells me that they are biased

Could it be? Naaahhh..so far they have been completely objective on every issue. (/sarc)

[tessalu]

The Networks were indeed biased. Now Peter Jennings has come down with inoperable lung cancer. Does that make him a useless eater? One whose life is not to be considered to be worth saving? I think when it comes to us, or our loved ones, we could not be so cruel and heartless as the USA newspapers have been to Terri Schiavo and her parents.

[GeekDejure]

I've always thought of Peter Jennings as a "useless reporter"... so where does it go from here??? ;-))

[FairOpinion]

Terri PING

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[tertiary01]

BTTT

[Hunble]

You have made your choice, and my family has made ours.

I trust my wife to make the difficult choice if I was ever placed into this situation. My wife also expects me to make this difficult choice for her.

What is not allowed, is for the Government, or anyone else, to make that choice for us.

Be VERY careful for what you wish for. You may just get it. Every law can and will be abused, in ways that you may not have thought about during a time of high emotion.

[TAdams8591]

Exactly. Zogby's poll with fairer questioning turned up results opposite from the abc poll.

[TAdams8591]

There was a dispute among family members and the case ended up in court as family disputes sometimes do.

[beckysueb]

My compassionate side wants to believe that the MSM were just a bunch of ignorant parrots in this case but my realistic side tells me that they are biased

I think its a whole lot of both.

[Dante3]

True, it does depend on how you ask the questions and also how you slant the sample.

The media bias appears not to be just due to ignorance, but deliberate - and that should concern all of us. If it weren't for FR I would have had little accurate knowledge of this case and would never have heard of the outrageous bias Judge Greer exhibited.

Bill O'Reilly went after the incompetent Judge Rapkin, which led to him resigning. If only we could get someone in the media to go after Judge Greer.

No matter how one felt about keeping Terri alive, Greer's denial of due process to her and the appointment of a guardian such as the sadistic Michael Schiavo, along with the refusal of Jeb Bush to save her, should be of great concern.

[syriacus]

Be VERY careful for what you wish for.

Poor Terri thought she was marrying a prince.

She married a man who lies under oath.

1992 Medical Malpractice Trial

Q.    What did you do with her cats?

MS.    Her cats were put to sleep n the advice of my mother-in-law. (Note: The veterinarian who performed the euthanasia of Terri's pets came forward to say there was never any suggestion from Terri's mother that this be done and only Mr. Schiavo's insistence.)

[russesjunjee]

I worked with the media and observed them closely in Pinellas Park during the 2003 attempt to kill Terri and during this last successful attempt to take Terri's life.

A couple of reporters tried to be balanced, but got trampled by their home network. The rest of them didn't even try. They lied and fed off the Schindler's misery.

They are all vultures, and as far as I am concerned they played an integral role in the murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo.

[mtbopfuyn]

The msm should shoulder even more of the blame than the evil trio. Those were merely 3 sick individuals whereas the msm spread so many lies that the majority of the citizens of these United States never understood it was murder. If the msm had only reported the truth, Terri would be with us today.

[mtbopfuyn]

You have made your choice, and my family has made ours.

However, Terri wasn't allowed to voice her wishes. She didn't have a choice. Greer denied her presence (via video or in person) in his courtroom as well as an attorney ad litem. Her family (parents, siblings, and countless friends) tried to speak for her but because of the law that hino, who was shacked up with another woman, was granted the choice.

[MHGinTN]

Let me frame the questions on the polls and I can guarantee an outcome the reverse of what the alphabet network mediawhores fished for. Sadly, most of the true sovereigns of this nation aren't savvy to the fraud of the agenda driven media ... the agenda is to aid and abet the societal engineering liberals.