In a story published this week in the major gay news website, 365Gay.com, which is owned by Viacom’s Logo network, the site’s writers misrepresent long-available information as something new.
The story’s lead paragraph states:
Newly released figures from the California secretary of state’s office show that the biggest contributor to the campaign to approve a ban on same-sex marriage in the state was the Knights of Columbus, the political arm of the Roman Catholic Church, which gave $1.275 million.
While it’s accurate to say that “newly released” figures show that, the story’s lead and its headline, “New Figures: Catholics, Evangelical groups outspent Mormons on Prop 8”, are inaccurate. 365gay suggests that the figures represent new information. They don’t. It has been known since long before the vote that the KoC was the largest individual organizational donor to the Prop. 8 campaign’s coffers.
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