It's a great trick - commit journalistic ineptness, then complain about journalism in general because this kind of thing happens.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=294
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As has already been the subject of much blogospheric mirth, news about sprinter Tyson Gay's record time in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials was reported in peculiar fashion by the American Family Association's OneNewsNow site. Here's a screenshot from BoingBoing:
Regret The Error picks its favorite quote: Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: ‘A little fatigued.’
The American Family Association is a conservative Christian group chaired by Donald Wildmon, dedicated in part to combating the "homosexual agenda." This fight apparently includes changing all instances of gay in its online news outlet to homosexual. Even though the Tyson Gay article has been corrected, Right Wing Watch notes that the OneNewsNow archive still has an article referring to basketball player Rudy Gay as "Rudy Homosexual."
It's a bit ironic that a right-wing news site was the perpetrator of an exuberant search-and-replace, since this phenomenon is typically associated with journalistic PC-ism: everyone seems to know about the apocryphal case of a newspaper changing "back in the black" to "back in the African American."
ETC.
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