a question about the advertising/announcing of schiavo stories on television news:
caveat: i rarely watch television. i find it repellent.
but
last night i was in my local publick house as the "news" was being transmitted across the television monitor and i noticed the schiavo graphics: a comrade pointed it out by remarking that if you look at the picture you would not imagine that chiavo's parents are in their 80s or something.
the photo was obviously from before she descended into the state she has been in for 13 years or so....
if you graft that photo--which appeared five or six times in various teasers and related story graphics, onto the information being relayed about her case, you would think that this image reflected the state terri schiavo was currently in, and that, were the right's "morality" crusade to work out, she would get up out of bed and look more or less the same way. the photo also functions to slide the age of her parents down, and so to make this whole case line up a bit more with a kind of "normal" parental age, and the situation itself with a "normal" situation gone awry.
how systematic has this kind of presentation been?
has anyone noticed?
how much a role do you think this plays in mobilizing (or not) the foxnews set around this question?
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