Gay-marriage cheerleading?

That's how a veteran religion reporter at Get Religion characterizes media reporting on the Prop 8 amendment opposing gay marriage in California. He notes that even stories purporting to report the views of Prop 8 supporters typically cite opposing speakers more frequently and provide more details of the policy justifications of those opposing the proposed amendment. Do you think this apparent bias also leak into polling results and reporting?

[Note: the topic of this post is not about the merits of either side of the Prop 8 debate, which get aired in other posts — it's about the media coverage of the views of the two sides, or lack thereof.]

Comments

[Geoff J]

Hehe. I think it actually says "Gay-marriage cheerleading" in the article. But I must admit that "Gay cheerleading" is a pretty catchy post title.

[Dave]

Thank you, Geoff, I can see that my title went awry. It has now been corrected.

[Peter LLC]

Whatever ills the media may suffer, writing from the "viewpoint of religious traditionalists" is sure not to cure them.

[Chino Blanco]

Or maybe it's simply that the polling results are leaking into the reporting?

For a proposition that most folks now expect to fail, it would definitely look like "cheerleading" if those doing the reporting were to take it upon themselves to wave the banner for the losing side.