{"id":6063,"date":"2013-12-16T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2013-12-11T21:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T02:09:47","slug":"next-step-accepting-open-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6063","title":{"rendered":"Next Step: Accepting "Open Marriage""},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that same-sex marriage has been accepted by some states, it\u2019s no longer a draw for the evening news, so ABC News in America has decided to move on to the next big thing; open marriage. These are marriages where fidelity is more of a suggestion than anything else. It\u2019s not polygamy, which at least formally acknowledges, in one manner or another, a lasting relationship with more than one spouse. Instead, open marriage, or polyamory, means two people are legally married while continuing to see other people.<\/p>\n

So ABC News decided to present a generally positive quote-unquote \u201cnews\u201d piece<\/a> about those for whom commitment is something only for mentally disturbed people. The most critical thing said in the whole segment was that reporter Nick Watt thought it just wasn\u2019t his thing, and that his wife wouldn\u2019t like it. But the rest of the segment, including questions to a psychologist, was generally positive. Not a hint of an opposing viewpoint.<\/p>\n

This is what passes for \u201cnews\u201d in the 21st<\/sup> century; one-sided advocacy journalism. Even if Watt isn\u2019t personally in favor of it, showing one side only, on a controversial topic, on a news<\/i> show, is advocacy.<\/p>\n

Do other news organizations do it? Yes, on both sides of the aisle. But while Fox News and the Wall Street Journal get lambasted anytime they don\u2019t play it down the middle, so many liberal news watchers have such a blind spot when something like this airs. Conservative media bias is outrageous. Liberal media bias is\u2026hey look, a unicorn!<\/p>\n

The other issue, of course, is that those who said that same-sex marriage would lead to a slippery slope have been, yet again, proved absolutely on target. We aren\u2019t falling for it, but the news media is pushing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that same-sex marriage has been accepted by some states, it\u2019s no longer a draw for the evening news, so ABC News in America has decided to move on to the next big thing; open marriage. These are marriages where fidelity is more of a suggestion than anything else. It\u2019s not polygamy, which at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,245,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-liberal","category-marriage","category-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t