The tragedy here is that they're totally unaware of how fucked up this actually is...

[MrScorpio]

[sharp_stick]

1. Is this real?

If it is, some people need to lose their jobs.

[MrScorpio]

4. The correction wasn't that much better

Mercury News just majorly messed up by replacing the first gold-winning Black woman swimmer Simone Manuel’s name with “African-American”. They later apologized for not using her name (”We apologize for an insensitive headline earlier on a story about Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps’ medal wins.”) and changed the headline to “Stanford’s Simone Manuel shares historic night with Michael Phelps” still putting Simone’s historic win in the same article with Michael Phelps as if she doesn’t deserve her own story.


http://nevaehtyler.tumblr.com/post/148857189723/bellaxiao-mercury-news-just-majorly-messed-up

[Gman]

7. There have been lots of stories about her

And I believe the point is a historic night in two ways, Manuel and Phelps.

[Skittles]

9. women have to be twice as good to be considered half as good

it's not just racism

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. WTF?

[rurallib]

3. good grief!

[Demonaut]

5. they fixed it but oh the backlash

http://larrybrownsports.com/media-police/mercury-news-simone-manuel-headline-apologizes/316943

[SusanCalvin]

6. C'mon people! Think, THEN write!!!! nt

[sheshe2]

8. Simone Manuel Rocks.

The aholes can go Ef themselves.

How many times can they get it wrong!

[Haveadream]

10. Epic fail, Mercury News!

Way to get it wrong on so many levels!

[Moonwalk]

11. Well, you know what they were *trying* to say: "First African-American woman...."

That's what happens when journalists and editors aren't trained to do their jobs.