“a puff piece on gay activism and a hit job on the LDS church”

GetReligion dismantles this weekend’s AP coverage of the “nationwide” “Kiss-ins” which garnered less than 300 demonstrators in three cities.

I’m not Mormon but you don’t have to be to see that this article — which is being published far and wide — is an ugly and unfair journalistic hit piece. The agenda of the reporter is obvious and both she and her editors for this piece should take a refresher course in Journalism 101. Or they should go write for the agenda-driven press where a slanted piece such as this belongs.

Though the demonstrators claim that they are not specifically targeting the Mormon Church, the AP decidedly does so with its headline, “Gay Marriage Fight, `Kiss-Ins’ Smack Mormon Image.” It only gets worse with the story’s content.

The AP’s Jennifer Dobner has been on the Mormon beat for awhile but hasn’t improved much since going to anti-Church critics when reporting on President Monson’s became Church president. Good for GetReligion to take the time to walk through such a distorted example of journalism.

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