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April 01, 2009
"Unbiased" CBS "News": First Memogate, Now Obitgate
The Glenn Beck show opened this morning with Glenn reading Terri Schiavo's obituary off the CBS News web site. One problem: She wasn't dead yet.
Of course CBS "News" pulled the erroneous posting down but Beck has a copy of it on his site.
Big deal, you say. News organizations have obits on file for every celebrity known to man so they can be the first to go to press with a full obit upon the celeb's death. Considering that Terri Schiavo can't resist much longer her "husband's" attempts to kill her, it only makes sense that news organizations would have an obit all ready to go. That's all well and good. But as they said on the old cop show Dragnet, most obits include "just the facts" not blatant, slanted editorializing about the outcome the "news" organization hopes to see.
In this case the blatant, slanted editorializing was this:
Michael Schiavo, who was at the bedside of his wife Terri when she died, told Larry King that he lives now with another woman with whom he has two children."I can love more than one person," he told King. "Everybody can do that."
According to friends and relatives, Michael Schiavo was Terri's only love. His big-but-tight-knit family took in Michael's bride, and she befriended his siblings, including his brother, Scott.
"It's so sad they've turned this wonderful person into a sideshow," Scott Schiavo told the Post. "It's such a shame. It really is. The one that's hurt the most here is Terri."
And there it is: The CBS "news" version of reality as written into an obituary about Terri Schiavo. Maybe they should just close up their "news" organization and send the reporters and producers off to write for their soaps. It seems to me that The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless and As the World Turns reflect reality nearly as well as the "news" CBS writes. But, of course, liberal "news" organizations such as CBS "news" are used to crafting "news" to fit their liberal worldview. And in this case, that worldview leans heavily towards Michael Schiavo.
The adulterous jackass, who has spent all the rehabilitation money on attorney's fees in his soon-to-be-successful attempt to kill his wife is the long suffering, devoted husband who just wants to see his promise to starve his wife to death through. The parents and siblings are a bunch of unreasonable, psychotic nuts who have a contingent of right-wing nutcases (like Jesse Jackson and Susan Sarandon) aligned with them who are attempting to thwart the rule of law by keeping their daughter alive. And she's a vegetable "on life support" anyway and deserves "the right to die with dignity". (Funny, for someone who "wanted to die" she sure seems to be hanging on to every shred of life with dogged determination.)
If CBS thought they could regain any credibility after Rathergate by booting their esteemed anchor out of the anchor chair and replacing him with Bob Schieffer, they just blew it again with this one. All the Bob Schieffers in the world couldn't pull them out of this little credibility hole. Forget the Fox Blocker. Give me a CBS blocker.
Posted by Steve at April 1, 2009 12:00 AM
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Oh puh-lease.
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