Saturday Night Live wasted little time piling on ESPN, FOX and the other networks and media outlets for their racial stereo types and slurs in the coverage of New York Knicks star guard Jeremy Lin. Here's the "Politcally Lin-correct" skit from SNL...
ESPN Jeremy Lin: ESPN has fired the editor responsible for posting a racial slur in a headline about New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin on Saturday. ESPN's Kevin Ota made the announcement this morning on the network's media zone page. Ota also mentioned there were inappropriate on-air comments made by announcer Max Bretos and commentator Walt Frazier earlier in the week (a clip of Bretos’s comment is here, and a follow-up apology is here). Bretos was suspended for a month. And I wouldn't expect Frazier, who...
Unless you have an iPad like I do (well, it's now my 2-year-old son's new toy) and were up until 3 a.m. last night, you probably missed this indefensible headline by ESPN following the New York Knicks loss to the Hornets ... (see screenshot on jump.). While the phrase "Chink in the Armor" might fly in some instances, under a photo of Asian-American New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin (not to mention a subhead pointing out his costly turnovers) is completely unacceptable. In fact, this...
