They just can’t get it right, can they.
The San Jose Mercury News, this time. Headline:
Michael Phelps shares historic night with African American
Um. In other words, Simone Manuel won a gold medal in the 100m freestyle final, shared with Canadian Penny Oleksiak. (They touched the wall at the same instant.)
The headline was widely criticised on social media for omitting Manuel’s name completely – and yet at the same time including both parts of Phelps’s name.
Mercury News sportswriter Tim Kawakami wrote on Twitter: “Sorry to my tremendous co-workers, but I’ve never been as upset at a headline in my own publication as I was with that one.”
The Mercury News tweeted an apology shortly afterwards.
We get it, Phelps has name recognition and Manuel doesn’t, yet. He’s a celebrity and she isn’t. Fine, but if you’re going to mention her, then mention her.
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Never hearst of Santa Maria Arsenic News. But they seem to have a headline? So they must be fast? At sport?
“hearst” – I see what you did there.
Knew you would ;-)
And Santa Maria is a spice brand over here. (Minus As, hopefully!)
California is riddled with saints’ names. San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Santa Clara, and on and on.
On a mission. Carmel is just another mountain, right? Sacramento in general.
And then there’s Russian River of course. Not sure about Truckee. Maybe next state.
Truckee is indeed in California, and usually the coldest spot. We always looked forward to hearing Truckee mentioned on the weather reports.