Okay, one last post on this, and I'm done.

I disagree that the media has been very one-sided on this issue. Notable exceptions would be stuff like Christian radio news updates, which you've probably heard, which could color your opinion on the media's bias. Further, the bias something might appear to have on the surface does not always hold out. For instance, the democrats often use coverage of the Lewinsky matter to "prove" that the media doesn't have a liberal bias. However, following the initial revelations (the media is about sensationalism and profit, after all), if you look at the coverage, they played it out as Clinton "lied about sex" rather than committed perjury and played up the deal about not all that many Americans wanting impeachment, which actually drove the number wanting impeachment down (some people initially wanted impeachment (actually, almost everyone would have preferred Clinton resigning), but, seeing that a conviction in the Senate wasn't going to happen (because people didn't want it), they didn't want the government to waste its time going through the impeachment process). Plus, they usually played down or did not cover matters such as Juanita Broderick (whose interview was kept on the shelf until after the trial). So the articles seeming to keep the attention on the scandal (and thus benefit Republicans), actually worked in subtle ways against the scandal (benefitting Clinton).

As for claiming the protestors were uninformed, from your original post: "My point is this: The people who are supporting the parents and the 'right to live' ... politicians ... They don't have all the facts anyway!" which would seem to read as saying those siding with the parents are uninformed, poorly informed, whatever -- certainly no match for the knowledge all the judges (the plural of which I already expressed an opinion on, along with the single judge who did most in this matter). And that's what ticked me off. I never said that you claimed to be more informed. You just seemed to be saying that they weren't as informed as the judges, so they should pipe down.

Oh, as to your original entry paragraph as to the Schiavo case receiving a lot of press, anything is better than the Michael Jackson case. TV cameras aren't allowed in the courtroom, so they actually re-enact the trial on tv! Ugh.

Oh, and happy birthday to a fellow monkey. It was recently discovered that Matt is a sheep and all his years of passing himself off as a monkey were a big lie.