Mothership lets a racial slur slip in a headline on its mobile browser

Suspension for slot (or whomever was the veteran leader of desk that night).

If, by some miracle, a slot never saw it, suspension for headline writer.

Save the head rolling for libel or actionable mistakes.

 

If Lin had just played better that night ...

 

Yep. So it makes sense that they don't want people working for them who can't avoid racial slurs without a safety net.

 

FWIW, in the 20 months I worked there, I never attended a meeting beyond budget meetings that lasted 10 minutes every day.

So this may have been a meeting with higher-ups, and a memo to them, that was mentioned to worker bees. They just might never have received the actual memo.

Not excusing it. At all. Just saying there are good odds that this guy wasn't handed a memo, read it, threw it out, and wrote the headline anyway.

 

Or maybe ESPN is spinning it.

 

Well, also, to be fair, Twitter has nothing to do with the deskers. So when they would consistently hand down memos to the talent ("DON'T BREAK NEWS ON TWITTER!") the desk never saw them, just heard rumors.

So if the memo went to talent/writers, the desk would likely not have seen them, if they were Twitter-centric.

Also, in my 20 months, I never saw a single mobile person. I don't know where they worked, or in what building or on what floor, but they were not part of the core newsroom.

 

Ex-ESPN editor who made racist Jeremy Lin pun in seminary

 

Jeez, are we writing Where Are They Nows on everyone who displayed bad judgment or made a bad typo?

 

Dunno ... do the others have 14-page threads?

 

I was more depressed seeing how long it's been since IJAG visited.