Santa Barbara News-Press apparently steps in it again

I thought a faggoat was the greatest faggot of all time.

 

And how would the copy editor know? Personal experience? Sabergoatmetrics? gayWAR?

 

And people say unions are dead.

"The employee is represented by the Teamsters. There is a process we are obligated to follow when it comes to discipline or termination. The employee is no longer in the building."

Santa Barbara newspaper apologizes after printing gay slur in byline

 

Seriously, what would have possessed somebody to do this? And think it would be OK?

And how does it not get caught, by somebody, even given the tendency to read over bylines/designations, or to think that, yes, somebody's proper name could, in fact, be Gayzalez?

 

A story about last minute Christmas shopping? I can't blame the reporter for not catching it. Or not thinking about it ever again.

Of course, being the person I am, I probably would've ("Man, I nailed this!")