I read this column and found myself agreeing with a lot of it. But when I got to the part about the media, I damn near stood up and cheered:

THE BEHAVIOR OF THE NEWS MEDIA.
Terrible. Pro-life columnist Nat Hentoff of The Village Voice called it “the worst case of liberal media bias I’ve seen yet.” Many stories and headlines were politically loaded. Small example of large disdain: On air, a CBS correspondent called the Florida rallies a “religious road show,” a term unlikely to have been applied to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights demonstrations or any other rallies meeting CBS’ approval.

More important, it was hard to find news that Michael Schiavo had provided no therapy or rehabilitation for his wife since 1994, and even blocked the use of antibiotics when Terri developed a urinary infection. And the big national newspapers claimed as a fact that Michael Schiavo’s long-delayed recollection of Terri’s wish to die, supported only by hearsay from Michael’s brother and a sister-in-law, met the standard for “clear and convincing evidence” of consent. It did nothing of the sort, particularly with two of Terri’s friends testifying the opposite.

The media covered the intervention by Congress as narrowly political and unwarranted. They largely fudged the debates over whether Terri Schiavo was indeed in a persistent vegetative state and whether tube-feeding meant that Schiavo was on life-support. In the Nancy Cruzan case, the Supreme Court said that tube-feeding is life-support, but some ethicists and disability leaders strongly dispute that position.

There was no other side in the mainstream media. We were told, rather authoritatively I might add, that america was lock-step behind Terri dying. Leo makes a great point about CBS calling the rallies a “religious road show,” something I’ve noticed more than over at the eyeball network.

And the coverage of Michael was largely sympathetic and compassionate despite his odd behavior in the days after Terri was receiving treatment after her collapse, as well as his revelation 7 years afterward that she didn’t really want to live.

Leo hits his marks in this one. You’d serve yourself well to read the whole thing. I may have my qualms about some of the things in it, but on the whole it’s worth reading.