MSM steps up to the plate in the Schiavo story

The Tampa Tribune is reporting on the Terri Schiavo case. Tribune reporters were instrumental in getting Judge Greer to unseal a Florida Department of Children and Families report alleging abuse of Terri Schiavo by her "husband", Michael Schiavo.

The DCF petition seeks a stay of Circuit Judge George Greer's order allowing Michael Schiavo to remove his wife's feeding tube for up to 60 days while the allegations are investigated. It also seeks an injunction preventing Schiavo from removing the feeding tube, and the appointment of a lawyer to represent Terri Schiavo.

Filed with Greer on Feb. 23, the DCF petition states the agency received ``30 detailed allegations of abuse, neglect or exploitation in a 34 page document received by the DCF hotline'' Feb. 18 and Feb. 21, ``whereupon an investigation has been commenced.''

Greer kept the petition out of the public record at the DCF's request until Thursday, when he granted The Tampa Tribune's and News Channel 8's motion for access based on a finding that any privacy concerns have ``long since been lost'' because of the extensive publicity afforded the case.

Please, read the whole Tampa Tribune article.

This is why we need journalists; this is an example of MSM doing its job well. We need more reporters like this, who are willing to go beyond the pro-death, pro-euthanasis bias of Michael Schiavo and his attorney, George Felos, and look into what's really happening in Terri Schiavo's case.

The Tampa Tribune was also the newspaper that accepted the Blogs for Terri ad on February 27.

I'm going to blogroll the Tampa Tribune. If you're a blogger for Terri, please consider doing the same thing.