Surprise!
Wedding cakes — specifically wedding cakes for same-sex couples — are making headlines again.
In the past, we've discussed the "frame game" as it relates to how news organizations characterize these cases pitting religious freedom vs. gay rights:
Here's the journalistic issue, related to framing: Is "deny service" or "refuse service" really the right way to describe what occurs when a baker declines to make a cake for a same-sex wedding?
Or does such wording favor one side of a debate pitting gay rights vs. religious freedom?
So let's consider how the media covered the latest case making news, starting with The Associated Press:
The AP's lede:
PORTLAND, Ore. — An administrative law judge proposed Friday that the owners of a suburban Portland bakery pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple who were refused service more than two years ago.
Sorry, but that lede doesn't cut it.