If nservativ thk that the mastream media has been givg advot of gay marriage sympathetic verage, they may have a pot. A recent Pew Study, for example, found almost equal amounts of stori givg affirmg or ntral verage of gay marriage, but only a smatterg of verage sympathetic to the arguments of those opposed to . But journalists are wrtlg wh aspirg for objectivy, reflectg chang public mor, and, many s, addrsg their own sense that gay marriage is a civil right jt like terracial marriage was the 1950s and 1960s. Much of the verage seems to embody a sense that opponents to gay marriage are on the wrong si of history.
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IS THERE BIAS IN MEDIA'S COVERAGE OF GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT?
Durg a week when North Carola voters rejected same-sex marriage and Print Obama endorsed , the ntroversial issue spired a passnate bate on blogs and Twter. And both social media platforms, those favor of allowg gay upl to wed domated those who were opposed. * gay marriage in the media *
More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). On Twter and blogs last week, statements backg the right of gay upl to marry outnumbered those opposed by more than 2-to-1-ntug a trend that has surfaced before social media.
The examatn clud the perd om May 6-the day that Vice Print Joseph Bin voiced his support on Meet the Prs-to May 13, five days after North Carola voted down gay marriage and four days after Obama’s statement. The study was not foced solely on Obama’s terview, but rather the views related to gay marriage overall. At the same time, an April 2012 survey by the Pew Fom on Relign & Public Life shows that younger people are more likely than any other age group to support gay marriage.
Another was a May 8 vote North Carola on Amendment One, a law to amend the state nstutn to ban gay marriage, civil unns and partnerships.
GAY MARRIAGE
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“Vice Print supports gay marriage?
“Thank you Arne Dunn for your support of Gay Marriage. “How rehg would be to see Print Obama set asi polil lculatn and support gay marriage? Some highlighted a May 7 article om the Daily Caller, reprted on the Fox News se, entled “Obama mpaign hs Romney on gay marriage-even though both are agast .
GAY MARRIAGE THE MEDIA
Although the levels of support for gay marriage did not change after Obama’s endorsement of , the volume of the nversatn grew signifintly. “I’m for gay marriage. If you love somebody you should be allowed to marry them straight, gay whatever:)” tweeted Ayy Dayzers.
“The Print ma a bold-and I thk brilliant move- g out support of gay marriage today, ” add Lenora Hoeworth. “For the life of me, I’ll never unrstand why people are so adamantly agast Gay marriage.
“So I support gay marriage, ” wrote a blogger at MoonSpe. “And if one 60+ year old woman, brought up a nservative small town, a tradnal marriage for 40+ years, n e to the ncln that gay marriage pos no threat to her or to any other straight people who are married, or want to get married… then n some still be foamg at the mouth? “Obama mpaigns on gay marriage change, bee of there is no hope left for his failed enomic change, ” tweeted Dan Spencer.