Ruling on racism link

Updated October 18 2012 - 10:08am, first published 10:00am

The Australian Press Council has considered a complaint that an article on The Sydney Morning Herald's website on 12 April 2012 inaccurately and unfairly implied that Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt had a link with racism. The article was headed "Bolt link to racist reviews of book" and had an image of Mr Bolt' captioned, "Racist link ... Andrew Bolt". It noted that Mr Bolt's blog had provided a link to a series of comments about a book on a US-based book retailer's website.