Figure 1.

Print and television media coverage of Terri Schiavo. Footnote: Because the impact of the TS case could have waned over time, we measured the number of days from the height of the TS media coverage until participants were interviewed. To estimate the height of the media coverage and determine its trajectory, we searched the LexisNexis database for all English news full-text articles and all major world publications in non-English (searching for Spanish publications) with the search term “Terri Schiavo”.¹² We also searched the Vanderbilt University Television News Archives database, which included evening news coverage for all major English U.S. television news stations,¹³ and the archives database of Univision, a major U.S Spanish television station, using the search term “Terri Schiavo”. All print or television data where TS was mentioned were captured and categorized by month and year. * Results obtained from Univision™, one of the largest Spanish television stations in the U.S.