(Reuters) – Sports network ESPN said Sunday that it had dismissed one employee and suspended another after apologizing on Saturday for an anti-Asian slur that appeared with a story on its website about the New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin. Former ESPN editor Anthony Federico, who was fired over a controversial Jeremy Lin headline that used […]
Former ESPN editor Anthony Federico, who was fired over a controversial Jeremy Lin headline that used the word chink, told the Daily News that the entire thing was a honest mistake. The day after speaking at the funeral of Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner hit up Madison Square Garden this afternoon to check out Jeremy Lin […]
ESPN has issued an apology over its use of the headline “Chink in the Armor” for a story about New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. By Palash R. Ghosh: Subscribe to Palash's RSS feed ESPN has fired a reporter who used the unfortunate term “Chink in the armor” in reference to New York Knicks point […]