I'm from the Pittsburgh area and you see an occasional hand held or peck on the cheek. I don't even see people bothering to stop and think about the genders involved anymore, and that's assuming we even notice. I guess that's just the difference between eastern and left coast, PA

Then they would be arrested for lewd and lacivious behavior same as a straight couple would.

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Nah...There wouldn 't be a difference here either...

Which is a point to be made...

If the responses are a complete non-issue, would the story run?...Of course not...

Controversy sells...you would never see this...

"Today we take a close look at people's reaction to same-sex affection...No one cared...it's a non-issue."...

That film would take 10 seconds to find the trashbin...

I wonder how many social experiments news outlets have done where this has happened...

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I agree controversy sells.

I also posit that the media et al (i.e. politics, religion...) sells the rest of humanity short as well. They play up stories they know will sell (it's ALWAYS been about ratings & membership) and they know what buttons to push on a complacent and somewhat naive/easily manipulated public.

It all boils down to where do we spend our advertising dollars. And what will and won't we tolerate being shoved on us. And it's as simple as do you shop at American Eagle or JCPenney. And I also know that comment will be lost on a few, but it is all of our faults for not knowing the politics we support! We are hideously unaware (and I'm not completely always sure either) of the underlying politics of where we shop.

If the part of the world that is so fuggin angry at itself would just go to--say the North or South Pole to implode and let the rest of the world live in peace and shop devoid of politics that would be a very good thing.

If the responses were a complete non-issue, the story would, more likely, be run from a different angle. One of 'see how much progress has happened in the last X years.'

I agree that controversy sells. Why? Because news services are a BUSINESS. Their purpose is to attract readers/veiwers which in turn bring in more advertising dollars. That is the nature of the beast. Don't kick a dog for barking; that is what they are supposed to do.

In the end, the people who are buying the papers are more at fault than the media. If people were not interested in controversy, then the media would change its strategy.

Here's a good example of exactly what's going on here...

Which makes a better thread...

1) ABC News does blind video survey of responses to homosexuals public affection.

-or-

2) That damned mainstream media sensationalizes journalism by creating false responses to homosexuals showing public affection.

3)

ABC films for one their programs and FOX muscles in on the action.

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Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
That's why I support the Pickens Plan. Check out the website at www.pickensplan.com. If you like what you see, please join me as a Pickens Plan supporter.

If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist