I am disgusted with liberal media over the Terri Schiavo case. I try to give the industry the benfit of the doubt when it comes to claims that they are trying to be objective, but this case is clearly displaying the error of my ways. Perhaps it was because I had some previous knowledge of the case prior to hearing all the news reports.
Every news story I see or hear titles this the "Right to Die" case, which assumes one position in the disagreement to be more valid than the other. Every one trots out "medical ethicists" who claim that killing Terri is the right thing to do. You can't get very far in "medical ethics" unless you consistently agree with medical doctors. Medical doctors are trained to think in terms of the physical, material, "scientific" realm - not philosophically or otherwise - and are therefore poor candidates to comprehensively comment on these issues. Further, only "death is o.k. and preferable" minded people have been given time on "mainstream press." Being somewhat connected to the medical community myself, I know that there is a huge debate over End of Life issues (which would have been the most objective title for news reports) - no one doctor or "ethicist" can speak comprehensively to this issue. If no one person or group can speak comprehensively then objectivity requires a reporter to get more than one quote from varied sources. Every story I have seen slants any involvement of those who think Terri should not be killed as exerting their political strength to force their views on all Americans in a dangerous way that threatens their civil liberties. "Hey liberal media. Guess what? No one in this country has the right to kill another citizen for commercial gain."
Not my usual style today. I'm just so overwhelmed at the sheer one-sided support I see for the killing of a weak woman. The Culture War is farther along than I thought. We must fight. We must fight hard. We must not give up. We must not back down. The time for compromises is comming to an end. Fight for right. Fight for liberty. Fight for life.