Californian
news site apologises for
'insensitive' headline about Simone Manuel
Simone
Manuel has become the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in an individual Olympic swimming event.
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Simone Manuel overcome with emotion after historic swim for America
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:*
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