People Magazine named Michael Schiavo the top Newsmakers of the Year
In the December 26th edition, People Magazine wrote, "Michael Schiavo's life has settled down since doctors removed the feeding tube from his brain damaged wife, Terri, on March 18."
"After their long legal battle, he and Terri's parents, Robert Sr and Mary Schindler, may never speak again."
"But Schiavo, 42, who works as a nursing supervisor in Pinellas County, Fla (Pinellas County Jail), is still angry at the way his personal family drama climaxed on the national state - and the way the battle over Terri's fate set off a stunning display of political histronics, including an emergency session of Congress, that landed him squarely in the middle of the culture wars."
"Schiavo, who according to his brother Brian, received death threats, will tell his side of the ordeal in a memoir, Terri: The Truth, which is due out in the spring. He has also started a political action committee."
"There is more important stuff going on in the world right now, says Brian [Schiavo's brother], "but he's not going to let people forget how he was vilified - so it doesn't happen again to someone else."