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08-12-2016, 02:53 PM
Californian news site apologises for 'insensitive' headline about Simone Manuel
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Simone Manuel has become the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in an individual Olympic swimming event.
SEE ALSO: Simone Manuel overcome with emotion after historic swim for America (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/simone-manuel-olympics/)
But for a Californian paper that wasn't historic e**ugh.*
Mercury News, which brings the latest Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area news, caused a backlash for their headline "Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American":*
The tweet was later deleted, but **t before started comparing the blunder to a Donald Trump's boutade:
Others attempted to explain it by blaming the recent wave of layoff in the paper's copy desk:* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/12/mercury-news-simone-manuel-olympics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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SEE ALSO: Simone Manuel overcome with emotion after historic swim for America (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/simone-manuel-olympics/)
But for a Californian paper that wasn't historic e**ugh.*
Mercury News, which brings the latest Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area news, caused a backlash for their headline "Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American":*
The tweet was later deleted, but **t before started comparing the blunder to a Donald Trump's boutade:
Others attempted to explain it by blaming the recent wave of layoff in the paper's copy desk:* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/12/mercury-news-simone-manuel-olympics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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