Benjamin Wachs at The Snitch is all hats off for San Francisco's dapper mayor who has been at the forefront of the same sex wedding news:
A great deal of credit also needs to go to Gavin Newsom who, as
reported by Mattier and Ross, set down a careful media strategy. Bullet
points include:
• Make it about people, not politics.
• No stunt weddings.
• No mass weddings
In short – and this is great advice – no gloating. No shoving
aggressively married couples out at the rest of the country while
shouting “Your values suck!”
The evidence – so far – strongly suggests this strategy is working.
The major media outlets and even a substantial number of religious
blogs are focusing on the marriages rather than the “controversy.” It’s as much a public relations coup as a social one – and Newsom deserves credit.
I wonder how t.v. news coverage of this historic event played out in other parts of the nation, like more rural parts of the country. Did television news in Peoria show kisses and embraces between newly married homosexuals on their 6 o' clock programs? Or did the story simply get nominal mention in those markets? The internet and newspaper coverage has been mostly positive as Wachs posits, but I have to wonder if any phone calls came down to news directors in more conservative areas to cut out any same sex smooching.
Read the rest of that Snitch post.
