What is the medias responsibility with regard to facts?
This is where I think journalists who do this issue have a responsibility to educate. Sharing opinions is not enough when so many opinions are wrongly-founded, and when hate-mongers get their share of airtime. By giving so much play to misconceptions, including a few rabid and cataclysmic ones (e.g.” what will happen to the world”?), and so little attention to setting the record straight, the public service benefit is lost. Granted, Suzanne tried to pursue a more informed line. To the cataclysmic argument, she pointed out that homosexuality has been with us for a long, long time. She even went on to suggest that he was “being a bit closed-minded here”. She also probed the weaknesses in many opinions, such as when Caller #4 said “if it’s not hormonal and then the fault could be just on the parents”, but later on, the same caller backtracked. “We can’t blame ourselves” if the doctor found nothing wrong. Suzanne would have been aware that inconsistency in logic is a sign that an issue has
