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and i who works here are expecting a baby girl at the end of august. jenna wolf saying she is pregnant with her girlfriend, who also works at nbc. imagine that happening 15, 20 years. that would have been a bombshell and now a blip. absolutely. does this have any impact on public opinion? now is not just faceless people, but people who come into your living rooms who say, hey, i m gay. absolutely. even if you look at the way journalism has gone over the last 10 or 20 years, it has gotten more personal in a way. one thing that fox does very well, fox news they personalized their commentators in that whether you like o reilly or not, you know who they are. they have become real people for you. not just citing the facts. don t you say that is true on the other networks? i think fox took the lead on it. don t go bias in that sense, but the readers or the viewers like the humanity and you see it in blogging, as well. when the commentators are also a
lot of state governments still strongly oppose. i think there is. i had an interesting conversation with now retired senator joe lieberman s press secretary who said, i never got as much love from the media as when we were working on don t ask, don t tell. i never got a hard question. i never got a press on an answer that i got because i think there is this sense and i think because of the demographics and because they tend to come from big cities in america, they tend to be socially more liberal. that said, i don t think that they have mocked, i don t think i haven t seen rudeness or abru abruptness. perhaps a lack of nuance and understanding, if you will, in the beliefs of the other side. that said, last sunday, i believe it was, before or two sundays ago, you know, very balanced debates on the morning television shows. there wasn t, you know, a pro-gay marriage and another pro-gay marriage. there were people on both sides. another thing that has changed. you know this several
change. before the show talking about why we have had this revolution in public opinion in such short time. much faster, i think, than the civil rights movement of the 1960s. i think it s confluence of events. i think it s culture and media and the gay advocates coming out so that everyone knows that it s not just gay marriage in the abstract but frank and john down the street and jill and ann by the water cooler. so, that i think all these factors coming together and also i think the fact that marriage is no longer seen as a religious institution look at hollywood and tv back in the 60s. guess who s coming to dinner. changing racial attitude. look at star trek michelle nickehols doesn t matter the re of you out there, but played one of the lead characters in the 60s, she is black. martin luther king told her, don t you dare leave that show, you re making a difference. i was not expecting star trek to be cited.