Topic: WorldNetDaily
In today's WorldNetDaily Schiavo article du jour, Diana Lynne tears herself away from explicitly smearing Michael Schiavo long enough to detail a case in Zimbabwe, which she describes has having "eerie parallels" to the Terri Schiavo case.
The main parallel we're seeing, though, is Lynne's one-sided treatment of the story. Lynne describes the victim, a 42-year-old man who was struck by lightning eight years ago and who died in December 2005, as "a perfect double for actor Kiefer Sutherland." As in her Schiavo coverage, Lynne focuses on only one side of the story, that of the man's mother; nobody on the other side -- the man's wife or his doctors -- was interviewed for the article, and the mother's demonization of them is accepted unquestioningly by Lynne.
A quick Googling turned up no objective account of this story elsewhere (here's a non-objective one), making it next to impossible to fact-check. Perhaps that was the point of digging up a story from Zimbabwe.
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:31 PM EST
