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rocktivity

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13. As well as apologizing, the Vancouver Sun has tweeted

Reply to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 08:35 PM

Sep 2014

Last edited Fri Sep 26, 2014, 12:26 AM - Edit history (4)

What's there to look into? Just find out who wrote the caption, find out who approved it, find out who should have read it between its being written and being published, AND FIRE THEM!!!

This is no different than the South Park episode about Kick A Ginger Day -- from conception through production through approval for airing by Comedy Central, not ONE person stood up and said, "This could come back to haunt us -- even by OUR standards?"

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Vancouver Sun apologizes for racial insensitive caption [View all] ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 OP

that's the type of employees they hire samsingh Sep 2014 #1

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2014 #2

White stright dudes rule n/t arcane1 Sep 2014 #3

And how many times have you seen major news outlets caption someone Rex Sep 2014 #4

Dang, black guys can ice skate? trof Sep 2014 #5

Having worked on a copy desk, I can see how this might have happened. Brickbat Sep 2014 #6

It's unfortunate, but it certainly could have been far, far, worse. AverageJoe90 Sep 2014 #7

"Insensitive" isn't the word I'd use rocktivity Sep 2014 #8

how would they have described it if he was white ? JI7 Sep 2014 #9

The conventional caption would have been, "Jordan Subban, (center)" Monk06 Sep 2014 #10

except maybe that center is a position in the game Enrique Sep 2014 #11

Which is why whoever wrote the cutline wrote middle. Trouble is he/she kept writing. Monk06 Sep 2014 #14

While I don't think that the word "dark" is, in itself, a racist epithet, Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #12

As well as apologizing, the Vancouver Sun has tweeted rocktivity Sep 2014 #13