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| NBC, CBS Playing Down Schiavo Case |
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
The major TV networks are trying to play down the Terri Schiavo story as she enters her 13th day of court-ordered starvation and dehydration.
On Wednesday night two of the three major TV networks did not even bother to lead their evening news programs with the most controversial story of our day.
Both the "CBS Evening News" and NBC�s "Nightly News with Brian Williams" led their shows with news stories other than the Schiavo case.
Only ABC�s "World News Tonight" began its program with a full report on the latest developments in the Schiavo case.
CBS featured the Schiavo story as its second feature.
But NBC�s news broadcast wins the award for its effort to downplay the controversy.
Williams first led his program with a report on the Supreme Court�s decision to allow workers expanded rights in claiming age discrimination. He followed that with a report on the pope and his feeding tube.
Williams then simply offered a brief "update" on the Schiavo case narrated by Williams himself. No field report on the most-talked-about story in America, including the major story of the federal appeals court rejecting the Schindler family for the second time.
Why are the media elites in New York so cool to the Terri Schiavo story? Perhaps it�s not pleasant to cover the first court-sanctioned effort to starve to death a U.S. citizen.
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They weren't paying attention to it because the story had gotten boring. It shouldn't have been a national story to begin with, but camera-whores like Tom Delay and Jesse Jackson and the Bush brothers (not to mention a couple of flame-throwing catholic priests) couldn't resist the opportunity to see themselves on television. Combine that with the use of a brain-damaged woman as a fund-raising tool by political scum, and the media frenzy was born. For all the heat the story generated, there sure hasn't been much light. And for a country that brags about its religious beliefs and attempts to impose them on the world, we sure do seem to be afraid to die and go onto our rightful reward....
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They weren't paying attention to it because the story had gotten boring. It shouldn't have been a national story to begin with, but camera-whores like Tom Delay and Jesse Jackson and the Bush brothers (not to mention a couple of flame-throwing catholic priests) couldn't resist the opportunity to see themselves on television. Combine that with the use of a brain-damaged woman as a fund-raising tool by political scum, and the media frenzy was born. For all the heat the story generated, there sure hasn't been much light. And for a country that brags about its religious beliefs and attempts to impose them on the world, we sure do seem to be afraid to die and go onto our rightful reward....