Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Theresa Marie Schiavo died March 31, 2005. The 41-year-old's human and
communicative faculties were so deficient that a feeding tube was necessary to
nourish her and she had been silent for 15 years. In her final month, Ms. Schiavo's
health, the dispute between her husband and parents concerning the removal of her
feeding tube, and her subsequent death were covered extensively by American
broadcast, online and print media. As she lay silent in a Florida hospice, the U.S.
Congress, the president and the courts intervened, and those who spoke about her
matter and the news media propelled her human tragedy toward the top of the public
agenda. News stories, reports and analyses of the case from Time, Newsweek, The
New York Times, The Washington Post and St. Petersburg Times are analyzed using a
critical-qualitative approach to framing.
communicative faculties were so deficient that a feeding tube was necessary to
nourish her and she had been silent for 15 years. In her final month, Ms. Schiavo's
health, the dispute between her husband and parents concerning the removal of her
feeding tube, and her subsequent death were covered extensively by American
broadcast, online and print media. As she lay silent in a Florida hospice, the U.S.
Congress, the president and the courts intervened, and those who spoke about her
matter and the news media propelled her human tragedy toward the top of the public
agenda. News stories, reports and analyses of the case from Time, Newsweek, The
New York Times, The Washington Post and St. Petersburg Times are analyzed using a
critical-qualitative approach to framing.
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