Chink in Armor

So like Spence, I love sports more than I do politics I must say. This week I decided to take an actual "headline" that made headlines. As a matter of fact I got it from none other then what are blog is named after, The Hattington Post. This article was written on a headline that ESPN put out about up and coming superstar Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. He is an Asian-American who graduated from Harvard, in which he even comments that he used to be offended when opposing fans would call racial slurs to him during games.  A post in the small headline bar came up at 2:30 in the morning after the Knicks lost to the Hornets ending their win streak. The title of the headline was "Chink in Armor". This was taken off shortly later apologies added on from ESPN at 3:00 in the morning. I believe the action was obviously offensive in terms of the word chink being used, but it was blown out of proportion once the social networking media got a hold of it through snapshots, facebook, and twitter. Since I am doing my research paper on the social networking sites, I thought it would be good to include a blog that also incorporated them. Seeing as that the statement was politically incorrect the author of the article handled the way they threw terms around and criticized the espn headline in a normal tone. I believe that the author, like the fans was behind Jeremy Lin since he was definitely not in the wrong by simply playing the game. The author then goes on to cite other instances where the ESPN has used slurs and foul play comments. I believe by using other examples the author seems to exhaust the assault of the mistake to further drive negative connotations with ESPN for some reason. It was almost like he was saying they did it once and they'll do it again. Once a negative thing is pointed out it seems like all types of media; political or not, will drive the point home of blame until the viewer has accepted it.