Wind of change comes sweeping down the plain: Media coverage of a federal judge striking down Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban.
GETRELIGION.ORG — My home state of Oklahoma made big news Tuesday when a federal judge struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The New York Times noted that the ruling occurred in the “heart of the Bible Belt,” while The Associated Press characterized Oklahoma as “the buckle of the Bible Belt.” (Religion angle, anyone?)
For the Tulsa World — whose banner headline today proclaimed “Gay marriage wins” — the ruling hit especially close to home, and not just because a Tulsa-based judge made the ruling. Two of the four plaintiffs are World editors, a connection that — to its credit — the Tulsa newspaper made clear in its story.
A friend of mine who works for the World remarked on his Facebook page that “it’s not often you walk into the newsroom and watch news happen in front of your face. Like national news kind of stuff.”
This analysis of media coverage appears online at GetReligion.org.
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