The terribly tragic life of Terri Schiavo ended this morning, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed on March 18.

Here's a collection of stuff I found on the Net and in the blogosphere about the case.

Former Democratic senator and one-time presidential hopeful Bill Bradley on what the Democrats must do to renew themselves.

The Village Voice's Nat Hentoff says of Terri Schiavo: "Her crime was being disabled, voiceless, and at the disposal of our media."

John C.  Danforth, a former U.S. Republican senator and UN ambassador, decries the apparent evolution of his party into the polical arm of the Christian conservatives.

Toronto Star media critic Antonia Zerbisias looks at some of the loony things that have been done in the name of news coverage in the tragic Terri Schiavo case.

Not Al Gore, if you're wondering. The headline is taken from a cutline of a photo (of the lissome Jessica Alba) illustrating an NYT story on Sin City, which I most assuredly will see in the next few days.

The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment -- a four-year, $21-million US effort to collate all that is known about environmental degradation -- is painting a bleak picture about what we're doing to our planet.

Tuesday was an all-star night for disgusting stories on the wires, although I think the 'guy eating his own feces to try and fool a breathalyzer test' yarn tops the 'dead grandma left to rot in a house for nine years' story.

Lefty It Girl Naomi Klein went to Italy to interview Guiliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist wounded by U.S. troops after being freed by her Iraqi captors.

There are some very interesting new revelations in it. Klein spoke to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on March 25.

John Miller, a professor of journalism at Ryerson University (Rye High, in some circles), reviewed Hugh Miles' 'Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged The World' for The Globe and Mail on March 26.

I review the review! :)

The NYT looks at Liz Smith, long the doyenne of celebrity gossip, and finds her admitting she's not nasty enough to get her gig in today's media climate.

Slate's Jack Shafer goes after L.A. Times media writer David Shaw for a column that gave the impression Shaw has read a lot of critical things about blogs, not not many actual blogs themselves.

Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias on the disappearance of foreign news from the U.S. networks and her take on commuter dailies.

Saw this on 10:51 a.m. Toronto: Eye Weekly took a look at the city's pro-blogs a few weeks ago -- omitting, mysteriously, the aforementioned 10:51 a.m. Toronto.

NYT public editor Daniel Okrent tries to throw cold water on the notion that the paper's editorial board controls the way news is reported.

The NYT's Paul Krugman on some of the disturbing developments out of the tragic Terri Schiavo case. It's chilling in places, both figuratively and literally.

An excerpt from the Reuters story via Yahoo! News:

This is a very interesting piece from the NYT Magazine about the birth of a new church in a soulless exurb of Phoenix that plays down the religion, plays up the laughs, hands out Krispy Kreme donuts -- and hints it might be tough to maintain friendships with non-believers.

According to this NYT story, the leaders of Ohio's fastest growing churches want to take over the Republican Party there, starting with the governor's race in 2006.

NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman pulls his hair out over why Dubya picked social security reform as a hill to die on when energy conservation is a much bigger issue.

This Toronto Star feature is about Dr. Harvey Anderson, a University of Toronto nutritionist and McDonald's advisor.

I liked what he had to say about the highly successful Morgan Spurlock film Super Size Me....   more »

This is actually a couple weeks late. The Star named Sharon Burnside to replace ombudsman Don Sellar.

Burnside gets a new title: public editor. Here's an excerpt from her introductory column, published March 12:

The Greensboro News and Record is only a 93,000-circ. newspaper, but it isn't using that as an excuse to avoid innovation.

The report from the conference Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism, held Aug. 3 in Toronto, is now available (I saw the link at WarrenKinsella.com).

The NYT's Frank Rich on what he calls the God racketeers.

Nora Paul of the University of Minnesota looks back at the innocent brainstorming of the early 1990s about the possibilities of online journalism -- when talk of the bottomless newshole, hyperlinking and interactivity had the craft a-twitter.

PoliSci prof Marion Just and Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism talk about why the Bush administration's video news releases have been embraced by some local TV stations.

An ABCNews.com column by Michael Malone on the death of the newspaper medium (thanks to Wayne MacDonald for posting the link to CAJ-L).

Hill Times columnist Tom Korski dug a figurative mineshaft during his recent deep investigation into blogs. He used all his powers of thought to ponder their purpose and meaning, and does not like what he found.

Since my stats tell me my loyal readers liked the Quasi-royalty sighting! yarn, here's two more about close encounters with the vice-regal.

On Monday, the BBC announced it would cut 2,000 jobs in programming, including news.

Here's BBC Online editor Pete Clifton's take on how the cuts will affect his service.

I live in the "Little Italy" part of Toronto, which has a big "Passion of the Christ" parade every Good Friday.

I watched a few minutes of the  parade while doing other stuff (hey, I'm agnostic; Easter's not a big spiritual deal to me), and have one observation.

Getting killed by a fellow Catholic while sticking up for poor, oppressed people doesn't put one on the fast track for sainthood in Pope John Paul II's church.

Some excerpts from a Globe and Mail story about Archbishop Oscar Romero by Michael Valpy:

It was actually Wednesday when Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was slain by U.S.-backed death squads, but it's still a significant anniversary worth noting.