Terri Schiavo, Iraq, and the Old Media

The Old Media found itself on the defensive last week when President Bush, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham (You go girl!) and others challenged the Media accuracy and balance in covering the war in Iraq. Tim Graham of the Media Research Center described the situation well in this NRO article.

Something I keep wondering is if President Clinton were conducting the same policy under the same circumstances, would the Old Media spin be so overwhelmingly negative? Because while the Media bias has reached a unprecedented frenzy in the past year on Iraq, anti-terror policies, Katrina, the economy, etc., I still feel the most appalling media bias occurs around social issues, especially those involving life and death.

I recall last year while in traffic listening to a network news report on the radio during the time when Terri Schindler-Schiavo was being dehydrated to death by court order. The announcer stated that 'most experts' assure us that Terri was totally unaware and not feeling a thing. Having access to other sources of information indicating the kind of suffering she was going through. I did something unusual for me and yelled an epithet at the car radio (you know, the colorful metaphor for bovine manure). Of course, this bias has a long history on the topic of abortion and is as current as the latest hype on embryonic stem cell research.

I've come to accept the possibility that some of the elites in the Old Media and elsewhere are so obsessed with protecting their politically correct lifestyle choice fantasies (which include justifying abortion, euthanasia, etc.) by trying to bring down George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans that they've lost sight of the national security impact of their distorted spin on the current situation.

Do they fear Pope Benedict more than they do Osama Bin Laden? After all, the Holy Father and other religious and social leaders and more and more common people are peacefully challenging the 'conventional wisdom' being spun by the Culture of Death.

And whatever W's effectiveness on other issues, his two most outstanding domestic accomplishments are named John Roberts and Samuel Alito. With more judicial nominations possibly on the way, the pc crowd must feel a desperation to stop W and the Senate majority from ensuring the dismantling of the 'new morality' which has been judicially imposed on our society for the past forty years.

So, hopefully, the awareness will continue to spread that the Old Media emperor has no clothes. The flood of information from alternative sources is already having a tumultuous but healthy effect on the nation's political climate.

And back to Terri, the blogburst continues. Check in with BlogsforTerri, ProLifeBlogs, and the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation.