I cannot help but be appalled at the apparent bias that is slipping into the "news" portions of the paper from the editorial pages where I would expect to find it.
It is hard to believe that the Star Tribune would give any credence to the columns of Katherine Kersten anywhere but in the op-ed section. Monday's inference that Senator Michele Bachman was somehow a victim of intolerance instead of the instigator of it was bad enough. But today's effort to fan the flames of the Terry Schiavo debacle by twisting an autopsy that supported the claims of Michael Schiavo into a document showing she "died of dehydration, while an armed policeman stood at the foot of her bed to prevent her parents and siblings from reinserting her feeding tube" goes off the scale. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the only other headline that comes up when doing a search for "Terri Schiavo autopsy" in the paper's own search engine yields but one other headline-"Schiavo's Parents Not Swayed by Autopsy". The story that follows spends more time rehashing the charges that the Schindler's had leveled against Michael Schiavo, which the autopsy did NOT substantiate, than in pointing out that he had been correct in his claims about the irreversible brain damage his wife was suffering from. I can only hope that this seemingly obvious pandering to the right among us is merely a badly disguised attempt to sell papers to the "Right To Life" crowd invading our fair city this weekend and not a sign that our proud paper is becoming less of a news vehicle and more of a propaganda tabloid. Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ http://minutemenworldwide.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! & GET INVOLVED!!! REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
