On Wednesday, The Santa Barbara News-Press issued an apology after one of their reporter’s names was manipulated in print to include an antigay slur in their Christmas edition.
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The reporter’s name, Paul Gonzalez, was changed to read, “Paul Gayzalez, News-Press Faggoat.”
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Donald Katich, the paper’s Director of News Operations, issued the following prepared statement:
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“In Monday’s News-Press, one of our employees changed another employee’s byline to reflect an offensive slur. The News-Press has taken immediate and swift action with this employee; we do not tolerate any form of harassment in the workplace. We apologize to our readers.”
The San Luis Obispo Tribune further elaborated:
The byline is unaltered in the online version of the story. Katich told SF Gate that the employee behind the change “is represented by the Teamsters. There is a process we are obligated to follow when it comes to discipline or termination. The employee is no longer in the building.”
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Heywood Jablowme
Some Trumpkin MAGA moron who managed to get fired from his safe UNION job in coastal California! LOL. Oh well, he can move to Bakersfield or Phoenix and become a meth dealer.
GC1985
I agree. Definitely a MAGA moron. Some still exist in Santa Barbara. Soon all of these MAGA clowns will be in the unemployment line.
GC1985
AND unemployed morons are HOT.
ProfessorMoriarty
Stupidity is almost never attractive.
GC1985
Fake impersonator is back. I have reported it. A simple IP check can see that the troll registers in Arizona. The fake impersonator is an older man that preys after young teens on a site called chathour.
SiamSam
Faggoat? That’s offensive to Muslims! This is an Islamophobic hate crime!
Kangol
After the read the Queerty byline above, by “Derek Dickoff” (did anyone notice this?), I thought this might be a hoax. It isn’t, and according to SFGate and other papers really did happen, but maybe Queerty was also testing us to see how carefully we read. Or something. (Isn’t the correct spelling of the writer’s last name De Koff?)
Kangol
Sorry, the paragraph should start: “After I read…”
Heywood Jablowme
Damn. We all should have seen that cumming.