UPDATE: Just received a message from Jonathan Kay (via Facebook) explaining it was our message to him that led him to reevaluate his post. It reads: “After I got your note, I revisited the CBSC decision and reviewed the media coverage of it. You were correct that the CBSC decision was based on aspects of McVety’s pronouncements that were not directly related to the legal issues I discussed in my blog post. And so I took the blog post down.” We also received a note from a reader who tells us the National Post journalist who wrote the original news item continues to stand by the accuracy of his piece. While we welcome Kay’s decision to “revisit” the facts — rather than relying on McVety’s own spin — we’re still wondering, given the effort made by the CBSC to clarify that McVety’s opposition to homosexuality or gay pride played no role in its verdict (in both the full text of its ruling and the press release), how a renowned columnist for a major national newspaper got this so wrong?
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“Garbage in, garbage out” is a popular computer science concept and an apt way to describe National Post columnist Jonathan Kay’s recent musings about Pride and a Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) decision.
A misleading story written by the Post about the CBSC’s recent reprimand of Charles McVety for broadcast regulation violations inspired Kay to pen an opinion piece so wholly inaccurate that all traces of the delusional screed had to be scrubbed from the paper’s website only days after the piece first appeared online Monday
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Here’s how his column appeared on the site until sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning:
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