ABC’s Jake Trapper reports on the GOP’s game plan on same sex marriage — and Barack Obama’s feelings about how Vice President Joe Biden speeded up his eventual statement of support:
Also of interest: Why ABC’s Robin Roberts got the exclusive.
And, moving from journalism and reporting to the unabashedl political, our slanted headline of the year breaking a news story goes to this headline on Fox Nation’s post on this story: “OBAMA FLIP FLOPS, DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE”
Oh.
With headlines like that shouldn’t Fox revise its slogan to: “We decide. You look for reporting.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.