Slanted News? ESPN Writer Fired Over Anti-Asian Headline
JEREMY LIN'S emergence as a basketball phenomenon has also exposed a surprising amount of racism.
After Lin and the Knicks lost to New Orleans an ESPN writer used the headline "Chink in the Armor." He has been fired.
I guess it's possible that this writer wrote the "Chink" headline without realizing that it could be read as an anti-Asian slur. Possible, but hard to believe.
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