“Will we look back on this as March Madness?,” Howard Kurtz wonders today. “Have you ever seen the country go so crazy over the case of a single obscure person — when the same thing has happened to so many other brain-damaged or critically ill patients over the years? Or is this just another passing spring storm, to be replaced by the next national angst attack?” WOW: “I feel like I’ve been bounced around like a pinball in a machine. The Martha-out-of-jail fixation, the Jacko/young boys/porn trial, the Robert Blake how’d-he-get-off verdict, the Ashley Smith angel-redeems-murder-suspect saga, the Jessica Lunsford suspect arrested. And then in just the last day, Terri Schiavo dies, the pope falls gravely ill and, in my little world, Ted Koppel quits.”
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