ESPN does it again: ‘Gook Double Earns Victory’

[pokerfan]

You see, Gook is the player's first name, so it's okay. Oh sure, usually last names are used but I guess ESPN couldn't resist.



http://www.mediaite.com/tv/a-week-after-chink-in-the-armor-headline-espn-posts-gook-double-earns-victory/

[MrSlayer]

1. C'mon it's the guy's name.

You're reaching here.

[alfredo]

3. He should change his name to Renaldo.

[pokerfan]

11. part of it, anyway

[LanternWaste]

24. Much as when President Obama is referred to as 'Hussein'...

Much as when President Obama is referred to as 'Hussein'...

[beyurslf]

2. I would like to think that maybe they didn't know which name was his first or last

so they guessed. But, past actions inform otherwise...

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. What does Ichiro mean in Japanese? n/t

[daleanime]

9. It depends....

sub or dub?

[Art_from_Ark]

16. "Ichiro" literally means "Number One Son"

In olden days, the second son might be named Jiro, and the 3rd son might be named Saburo ("Number Two Son" and "Number Three Son&quot

[eShirl]

30. the Romans used to do something similar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praenomen
"A few names, such as Prima, Secunda, Tertia, and Quarta, occur regularly amongst women, although the corresponding masculine forms were rarely, if ever, used for boys. Paulla (often spelled Polla) is also especially common, although the masculine name Paullus was uncommon as a praenomen."

(Actually some of the common male names were Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, Nonus, Decimus...)

[onpatrol98]

5. Couldn't resist...

So...Kobe??? Shaq???

[rufus dog]

14. To answer your question

Asshole and Big Asshole.

Although Shaq has done a great job improving his image after retirement. Kobe, he will likely be a bigger asshole in retirement.

[onpatrol98]

31. lol...

*I take the 5th.

[onpatrol98]

6. First Name or Last???

Is this Lee Dong-Gook?

[daleanime]

7. Talk about no win situations....

the guys first name is Lee Dong.

[rocktivity]

8. His first name is Dong-Gook - like Mary-Ann or Jean-Michel -

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and his last name is Lee.

So at the very least, the headline should have read either "Dong-Gook earns double victory" or "Lee earns double victory."

The headline reads “Lee Earns Double Victory” now, but wasn’t fixed before someone took a screen-grab and spread it over the internet.

Oh...hey, wouldn't it be funny if this was done by the person who replaced the person who got fired for the Jeremy Lin headline "Chink In the Armor"?


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[pokerfan]

10. but that's not funny!

Somewhere, some writer thinks he's making a sly joke.

[rocktivity]

13. "A sly joke" -- that's what the writer can put

on his unemployment application.


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[Chan790]

12. ESPN is not staffed by geniuses.

Sports journalism is a field dominated by former jocks and college athletes.

Also Bristol, CT is filled to the brim with morons. I say that as a former elementary school student of Bristol Public Schools.

[mr_liberal]

15. They didnt do it the first time.

That "Chink in the Armor" wasn't on purpose. The fact that that guy got fired is ridiculous.

Political correctness is becoming like McCarthyism.

[Iggo]

17. Bullshit.

It was completely and obviously intentional.

[HangOnKids]

18. Indeed ^^^^^^^^^THIS! n/t

[JSnuffy]

20. The guy had used the phrase...

... over 100 times as a headline in previous articles.

It may or may not have been but it certainly isn't certain.

[Ikonoklast]

21. 100 times? Really? He's a crappy writer if he uses the same phrase 100 times as a headline.

I'd have fired Federico for that reason alone.



But, then again, I don't believe him for one minute.

Nice how he went to being a Christian so quickly trying to save his sorry ass, got to love that tactic.

[pokerfan]

23. well, then this is the one time out of a hundred

you can't use "chink in the armor." He needs to work on expanding his repertoire.

He wasn't fired for being a racist, he was fired for making a massively bad editorial decision that potentially cost ESPN huge amounts of goodwill with key audiences in the U.S. and Asia.

[joeglow3]

26. Yeah. He hates asians.....including his wife

Give me a break.

[Iggo]

28. By all means, take a break.

[RZM]

27. That's what I thought at first

I argued as much on this board. But after seeing Federico's response, I'm not so sure. Unfortunate mistakes are common in journalism and it seems that this guy is anything but prejudiced. I'm starting to think he might have gotten a raw deal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/anthony-federico-fired-espn-apology-jeremy-lin_n_1294457.html

[zappaman]

32. A buddy of mine is good friends with the guy who wrote "chink in the armor"

and swears he didn't even realize it.
he just didn't even think about it.
and yes, his wife is asian.

[Iggo]

33. I read his apology and I'm not buying it.

I don't think he's that stupid.

[dogknob]

19. Remember the hockey player named Satan?

My fave of all time: Dick Trickle. He single-handedly boosted ESPN's coverage of NASCAR during his career. No matter how he did, they would always announce the results.

When I lived in Oregon, the Portland sports news loved it whenever Oregon played Oregon State because they could say "The Ducks pounded the Beavers today!" on prime-time TV and nobody complained.

[Dirty Socialist]

25. Or Dean Windass?

The English soccer player.

[pokerfan]

29. so these headlines are just a way to get around the censors?

I can hear the defense: "Chink is a perfectly cromulent word when used to describe a gap in something and Gook was the dude's name or at least part of it. What else was I supposed to do?"

[AsahinaKimi]

22. quote: "Is it really this hard to avoid using ethnic slurs?"

Um.. apparently.