The day after
President Barack Obama "came out" in support of same-sex marriage, I surveyed the nation's front-page newspaper coverage of the historic decision. It's astonishing how the story was covered: While the majority of the nation's states ran with a similar narrative headline "Obama Backs Gay Marriage," there were numerous dailies that either ignored the story altogether, or added a negative slant. See for yourself... *
Not a word... Absurd... Yes, seals are much more significant than a national shift in civil rights...
More shameful ignorance... ignoring the biggest news story of the week...
Outright blasphemy, as newspapers add their personal conservative slant to the "news."
Straight-ahead news coverage of the story by some of the nation's major dailies (the
WSJ actually surprised me, given its consistently anti-Obama editorial coverage)...
I was proud to see that my hometown newspaper
The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., a community mired in conservatism, played the story "straight." *
The day after President Barack Obama "came out" in support of same-sex marriage, I surveyed the nation's front-page newspaper coverage of the historic decision. It's astonishing how the story was covered: While the majority of the nation's states ran with a similar narrative headline "Obama Backs Gay Marriage," there were numerous dailies that either ignored the story altogether, or added a negative slant. See for yourself... *
Not a word... Absurd... Yes, seals are much more significant than a national shift in civil rights...
More shameful ignorance... ignoring the biggest news story of the week...
Outright blasphemy, as newspapers add their personal conservative slant to the "news."
Straight-ahead news coverage of the story by some of the nation's major dailies (the WSJ actually surprised me, given its consistently anti-Obama editorial coverage)...
I was proud to see that my hometown newspaper The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., a community mired in conservatism, played the story "straight." *
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