New Yorker Presents Editorialized Speculation on Terri Schiavo, Offers No Correction

Rachel Aviv’s “What Does it Mean to Die?” profiles Jahi McMath, outlining this resilient and courageous young girl’s situation in much of its depth, conveying the complex nature of Jahi’s medical and legal situation as it relates to the neurological criterion for death (“brain death”) and many medical, bioethical, philosophical, and religious dimensions of the issue of human life. Unfortunately, in this same piece the New Yorker presents editorialized speculation and hearsay on Terri Schiavo as if it were objective news. Worse, after nearly two weeks of appeals, the New Yorker’s “fact checking” staff and editors refused any correction.

The New Yorker editorializes that footage of Terri Schiavo appearing conscious and aware “had been edited, giving the illusion that she was tracking people with her eyes, even though she was blind”.

These “fact free” assertions dramatically misleads readers about the nature of the early 2000s Terri-related footage. A much more objective and medically sound characterization in the form of a correction was proposed to the New Yorker but rejected: “Short video footage of Dr. Ronald Cranford’s neurological examination of Terri Schiavo on behalf of her husband, Michael Schiavo, remains controversial, due to the uncertain nature of her visual and cognitive abilities”. CONTINUE

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Wesley J. Smith: More Falsehoods About Terri Schiavo’s Family

In "Culture of Death"

 

 

 

Terri Schiavo's Family Remarks on Bishop Robert N. Lynch's Retirement

In "Honoring Terri"

 

 

Please Don't Confuse This Story With Terri Schiavo

First appeared in the Dakota Voice, available here. One can’t help but wonder if perhaps the mainstream media is feeling a growing sense of uneasiness regarding Terri’s death. In the two years since my sister died I have witnessed an increasing determination on their part to convince the public that…

In "Op-Eds"

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New Yorker Presents Editorialized Speculation on Terri Schiavo, Offers No Correction