Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
The computers at right-wing news site OneNewsNow.com -- an outfit ran by American Family Association -- got a bit carried away with a recent wire story from AP that was put up on the site, according to Lexington (Ky) Herald-Leader columnist Jim Jordan.

He noticed a story on the site that repeatedly mentioned a runner named in the story as "Tyson Homosexual".

Oops.

Fred Jackson, the site's the news director, explained to Jordan that OneNewsNow handles a lot of Associated Press copy, and its small staff doesn't always have time to read every item before it goes to the Web, so they programmed a computer to scan AP stories and make certain changes to keep the stories in line with the association's right-wing agenda. One change was to substitute the word homosexual for gay.

So when AP recently reported that runner Tyson Gay had sped to victory and qualified for the US Olympic team, the Onenewsnow computer changed Gay to Homosexual throughout the story.

"It's been corrected," Jackson told Jordan before he could get the first question completed.

"There was good intent," Jackson claimed (without really explaining the intent), "but often with good intent, there comes the realization that it doesn't work 100 percent of the time."

[By the way, our so-small to be non-existent "staff" at seaQwa.com hand-edit all the copy that appears here. I usually substitute "gay" or "LGBT" for "homosexual". Our news filters would usually miss a story, however, that mentions "Tyson Gay" because it's one of the terms excluded from most of our searches.]

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