ESPN fires employee for offensive headline in reference to Knicks Jeremy Lin
February 19, 2012 at 8:35 am in Grand Forks Herald
ESPN says it fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin. The headline Friday on ESPN’s mobile website was used for a story about a New York loss in which Lin had nine turnovers. The headline was an idiom that contains a word that also can be used as a slur against Chinese. Continue Reading
The headline was “Chink in the Armor” so I can understand why he got fired.
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