Book of the Day

Believe nothing the Indoctrinaires shove into your brains, kiddies. For example: Death Is Love.

"Terri's Story: The Court-Ordered Death of an American Woman,"
by Diana Lynne

Americans have a short attention span, and it's even shorter for the news media. Although we've stopped talking about Terri Schiavo, the debate over her fate that gripped the nation for weeks in March didn't end with the death of the 41-year-old brain-injured Florida woman.

The discussion over the right to die versus the right to life, and feeding tubes representing extraordinary medical intervention versus basic, humane care is not over. Every day, families across the country continue to grapple with this complex issue quietly under the radar screen of inquiring journalists.

Proceeding outside of the media spotlight may not be all bad for these cases, given the track record of news organizations covering the Terri Schiavo story, and the numerous unreported, under-reported and misreported facts. Columnist Nat Hentoff called the shoddy and inaccurate reporting the worst case of "journalistic malpractice" he'd seen in 25 years of covering right-to-die cases. (Thanks to WorldNetDaily for the heads up.)