The American Family Association's editing of a news story recently resulted in a pretty big error. Apparently, the AFA does not approve of the word "gay" being used to describe homosexuals. So, whenever they run an Associated Press story, the AFA has a computer automatically change the word "gay" to "homosexual." A big problem occurred when they ran a story about U.S. Olympic athlete Tyson Gay, who instead was called "Tyson Homosexual." One sentence in the original AP story was:
"It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Gay said. "I'm glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me."The same sentence in the AFA story was:
"It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Homosexual said. "I'm glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me."I guess this is a funny reminder that things can go pretty wrong when you try to edit the news to conform to your ideology.
Brian,
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I got a big laugh from this one.
Good job.
CD: Glad you enjoyed it. I was telling it to people and everyone laughed so I felt I had to share it with more people.
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