OT: Jeremy Lin ESPN headline Fail
February 18th, 2012 at 10:49 AM ^
I can't believe a company as big and self aware as ESPN let something like this slip through. Somebody will probably lose their job over it.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:00 AM ^
No kidding -- this is *amazing* for a corporatized, focus-grouped outfit like that. I wonder how many people reviewed that headline?
February 18th, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^
Considering it was posted at 2:30am, I'm guessing not many, or possibly even no one.
February 18th, 2012 at 2:29 PM ^
No they won't. It's happened before, it'll happen again...
February 18th, 2012 at 10:50 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 10:57 AM ^
That's racially Linsensitive.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:15 AM ^
You win the internet
February 18th, 2012 at 11:28 AM ^
I believe you mean Linternet.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:32 AM ^
If I could, I would moderate this post "Linsightful."
February 18th, 2012 at 11:00 AM ^
Nobody would have published this "on accident" and not be aware of it's meaning.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:01 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 11:09 AM ^
Awesome.
February 18th, 2012 at 12:00 PM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 2:07 PM ^
In high school, one of our starting linebackers was Derick Cox, and he was injured for a game and our local paper posted the headline: "Huskies to face Rangers with Cox out."
February 18th, 2012 at 11:01 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 11:10 AM ^
Yeah I saw this earlier. They issued an apology over it this morning.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:04 AM ^
ESPN has very little journalistic integrity, as everyone saw from the Feldman incident. To see them stoop this low is no surprise. Junk organization.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
unbelievable.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:12 AM ^
How did no one notice this? Slightly objectionable. That is a terrible job by ESPN.
February 18th, 2012 at 11:19 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 11:28 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 11:29 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 11:34 AM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 11:37 AM ^
is that inappropriate?
February 18th, 2012 at 11:48 AM ^
A "that's hilarious" laugh = inappropriate
A "holy shit did that just happen" laugh = very appropriate
February 18th, 2012 at 11:40 AM ^
thats gold Jerry,gold!!!
February 18th, 2012 at 11:47 AM ^
knows that the proper racially coded word for Asians is "inscrutible."
February 18th, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
February 18th, 2012 at 12:27 PM ^
! linscrutAble
inscrutable, impossible to understand or interpret.
February 18th, 2012 at 12:06 PM ^
Heh, if it was black slur NAACP and Sharpton would be hollering like no other by now.
February 18th, 2012 at 1:09 PM ^
I think most people would agree that what you just said is absoloutely RIDICULOUS.
First... "hollering?" Wow.
Second... Did you really just compare this Asian slur, "chink" to the N-word? Both are bad and never need to be used...ever. But one has HISTORY and is more than just a word, particularly in America. Maybe you can compare the Asian slur to a slur for white-Americans "cracker"...which also does not have a place, EVER. But comparing this to the N-word is foul on so many levels.
February 18th, 2012 at 2:15 PM ^
What if it wasn't the n-word?
What if they posted a picture of a basketball team on the bus (predominantly black), having a great time and laughing because they just won a game?
What if they put a headline under it and said "Barrel Full of Monkeys"?
I would think even in that instance, NAACP and others would be protesting immediately and threatening boycott.
February 18th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
Apparently it's trolling to have a conversation on a message board.
February 18th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
Are not racial terms all equally bad? I didnt know there was a heirarchy?
February 18th, 2012 at 12:12 PM ^
I lol'd
February 18th, 2012 at 12:13 PM ^
Well Fox contributor Jason Whitlock also made reference recently to Lin's potential lack of....er.....shall we say "girth" so the media is covering all the racial bias bases on this story.
Based on the lack of national outrage over these incidents I guess we can say it's still ok to make fun of asians.
February 18th, 2012 at 1:16 PM ^
There is zero chance this was an accident. There are only like five racial slurs in existence for asians, and one of them happen to shows up on an ESPN headline?
February 18th, 2012 at 1:21 PM ^
Wow, that is unbelievable.
I like that the apology is in microscopic print on an obscure page on their site:
February 18th, 2012 at 4:46 PM ^
There is no way mutliple people could see that without knowing. Especilly given that, you know, literally the only reason he is famous is that he is asian. It has to be an intentional effort to get attention. Which we are giving it.