NY Times Gay Marriage Roundup: Banner Headlines, Few Opponents, ‘Tears of Joy’
As expected, New York Times coverage of the law passed late Friday night allowing gay marraige in New York State was heavily favorable. Sunday’s front page New York Times story provided the tick-tock on how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marshaled support to pass gay marriage in the Republican-controlled New York State Senate in part by convincing “super-rich Republican donors” to support him, in Michael Barbaro’s “ Behind Gay Marriage, an Unlikely Mix of Forces .” It included this odd anecdote about a Democratic state senator and holdout against history:
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