ESPN Headline Referencing Jeremy Lin Reads “Chink In The Armor”
Jason Whitlock and Floyd Mayweather will have to move over and make room in the penalty box for being a racist towards America’s darling, Jeremy Lin. Somebody at ESPN is about to join them. Lin turned the ball over nine times in a loss to New Orleans on Friday night, which prompted somebody at ESPN to clear the headline, “Chink In The Armor,” for the ESPN mobile browser (twitpic link compliments of @michaelgbenner.)
Last I checked, unless you were in a Clint Eastwood movie, it wasn’t socially acceptable to use the word “chink” within several hundred yards of anything even remotely Asian, and while the ESPN headline may have been inadvertent, it still clearly violates a rule in sports journalism that should be No. 1 in every journalism textbook–if it’s not already.
Avoid referencing minority athletes–or any athletes for that matter– with corresponding racial slurs.
Whoopsie-daisy.
ESPN took Mayweather to the woodshed about racial comments in regards to Jeremy Lin this week, so it’s extremely probable that somebody at the Mothership loses their job over this, especially considering that the network has relied on wall-to-wall Jeremy Lin coverage to fill their airwaves for the last couple of weeks.
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