Talk radio host Laura Ingraham posed an excellent question to her audience today while discussing the Terri Schiavo case in Florida. It pertained to the journalistic standards of MSM on the subject of ethical and moral issues.
It sounded better when Laura said it, but the gist of her question was this: "Why is putting panties on the head of an Abu Ghraib prisoner torture, but starving a helpless woman to death isn't torture?"
The New York Times chimed into the controversy with the assurance that a starvation death is "peaceful" and causes "little discomfort." As this Newsmax article suggests, perhaps we should try this "gentle" starvation technique on the Gitmo detainees. But applied in that case, I wonder how quickly the media would reverse its stand? Would starvation suddenly become torture?
You bet your sweet bias, it would.
