Florida attorney Matt Conigliaro has done an unbelievable job of reporting on the state legal issues of the Terry Schiavo case.
Beginning in August 2003, a month after he began his weblog, Conigliaro has covered the subject extensively, providing a reference page
that manages to be both thorough and fair, though some people would
consider his respect for the legal process as an attempt to pick sides:
The facts of this case are terribly sad, but they are not hard to
understand. There's really nothing to be confused about, and as best I
can tell, nothing's been overlooked by anyone. Terri's situation has
arguably received more judicial attention, more medical attention, more
executive attention, and more "due process," than any other
guardianship case in history. Terri's family has had the benefit of
excellent legal representation as well as the Governor's own top-notch
attorneys, all of whom have scoured the case for ways to assist the
effort to keep Terri's feeding tube in place.
One of the killer applications of weblogging is subject expertise
like this. The cover-today, gone-tomorrow mainstream media can't often
cover something complicated and technical with the same depth as a
dedicated expert like Conigliaro, especially television news.
The Online Journalism Awards
should be opening for entry nominations again in July. If there are
narrow-subject blogs out there as award-worthy as Conigliaro's, I'd
love to find them. [Workbench]
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