How do you write an Article? ; Midterm Blog2

   For homework the other day for Honors Civics I had find to write about a current event. I searched on CNN and read about 3-5 articles to see which one I liked and I noticed something about each and every article that I read... each article that had a specific topic whether its arguing for or against a topic, never has anything good about that topic or a rebuttal. If the article is slamming someone, it never has a rebuttal to make their article juicier, it just has all the bad things and if the article is about an argument, it never has a counter argument to make its argument better... why is that?

   The article I used to write my current event was about same sex marriage being banned in Oklahoma. All the points were based on how the federal judge said that not banning same sex marriage was going against "Plan A" that said for only men and women to be married, or the thoughts from the couples who had been struggling to get this ruling passed and words from citizens and other facts about the supreme courts. Most of the same sex couples arguments just specified on how they have been waiting and hoping that their states will recognize them as a married couple and they pointed out how once again justice wasn't served because the federal law only pays attention to a certain amount of people. That seems more like a argument against the ban, which they are allowed to have, but where are the comments from the same sex couples and other citizens about the good about same sex marriages?

  Throughout the article, nothing was ever mentioned about the rights of people, or equality or the fact that same sex marriages wouldn't be harming anyone. Where was the counter argument? The article added the fact that Oklahoma was split into two parts; people that were against same sex marriage and people that were for it, but why were they not for it? Why did Oklahoma have such precise sides? Where was the person in the middle? Maybe my writing skills were chiming in a little too much and I started to realize.. articles don't add in counter arguments or rebuttals because articles are just suppose to stick to the topic of slamming someone, otherwise known has putting them down. In articles about celebrities doing drugs, they never mention that they might also do community service or that they have a good driving record and in this article about same sex marriage nothing was mentioned about the good about it, or the right for equality. Even though this ban had to be brought up to the supreme court and federal court and to all these important people, where was that one judge that actually wanted the ban to be broken or where was the actual fight? That's what all articles lack, a good part, a counter argument, a rebuttal.. make me pick a side, make me want to fight for a topic, but instead, all I'm left with is seeing all the bad that covers up all of the other good.