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As many readers now know, the stop-gap measure of issuing a congressional subpoena to prevent the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube failed to stop anything. Judge George Greer ordered the authorities and doctors to proceed as planned and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the House’s appeal.
An informative piece at CNN.com updates readers about what’s going on in the Terri Schiavo case and captures some of the insane wrangling that the case has inspired.
A curious op-ed appeared during the weekend in The Dallas Morning News. The author began by telling readers that, “Barring some kind of miracle, the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo will begin Friday.”
One hopes this will be the last GetReligion post on the controversy over the New York Press‘ anti-pope cover story. I’m afraid if I spend any more time on the intricacies of this, I will start to theorize about grassy knolls and second gunmen.
GetReligion doesn’t normally take notice of obscure right wing fisticuffs, but I’m going to make an exception because I was one of the dogs in the fight, and because the fight ended up in The Boston Globe.
Or just a gasbag? I’m strongly leaning toward the latter opinion after reading Koyen’s letter to the New York gossip website Gawker, explaining why he chose to resign as editor of the New York Press rather than take a two week unpaid suspension over last week’s anti-pope cover story.
Over in the comments threads of Enter Stage Right, longtime New York Press contributor Alan Cabal tenders his resignation over the Press‘ recent anti-pope cover story. Cabal explains that he gave new editor Jeff Koyen and his sidekick Alexander Zaitchik
The story thus far: On Tuesday, the Manhattan-based alt-weekly New York Press ran as a cover story an article by Matt Taibbi. The title? “The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope.”
