The Schiavo Media "Beat"

This article examines how the Terri Schiavo case blossomed into total media saturation.

But I think it leaves out a great deal. Yes, they note a subtle detail that the videotapes we kept seeing were secretly recorded. But the MSM always left that out when the Schindlers and extremist pundits asked, "WHY WON'T MICHAEL SCHIAVO LET THE WORLD SEE HER?"

Schiavo appears to have been reluctant because the Schindlers were not only secret snapping photos and videotapes, they had them professionally edited to show exactly what was desired. Now, of course, you would boil down the contents of a six hour video just for sanity's sake. But the end result was carefully crafted to confirm what the Schindlers kept saying: that she was able to respond and communicate 100% of the time. Experts viewing the unedited tape (and trust me, I don't mean Bill Frist and Tom DeLay) called it a grave distortion of the reality. They also paraded an infinite amount of people in there with incredibly dubious qualifications - or no qualifications at all. But Schiavo's papers say he didn't so much mind the video taping and pictures if it was for family only; but the Schindlers - already backed by extremists - were distributing these like the TV Guide. And the husband felt strongly that Terri would have been horrified.

I also think this article completely blows right over the fact that the MSM was very complicit in allowing hour upon hour of live footage of every crackpot and politician who wanted to make his career out of this poor woman. They even showed Randall Terry performing at the memorial service (showing a good hunk of the damned thing like it was important or newsworthy). Yes, at a memorial service for me, I'd like some sleezy, hate-filled, fear mongering wife-cheating, gay son abusing terd like Terry to appear with a whole band!

Nobody asked DeLay a damned tough question; Frist either.