It appears that reports of St. Louis Cardinals fans hurling racial insults against Jason Heyward were exaggerated:
So did ESPN mics really pick up fans saying the N-word? Not according to officials from ESPN and the St. Louis Cardinals who reviewed the tapes, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Officials with both the network and the Cardinals said later in the day that they were unable to find [evidence.]” The paper also noted that the Daily News article has since been updated; now the magic word “alleged” appears in the headline; the name “ESPN” has been removed in front of “crowd mics,” and some other hedging has been introduced.
So to sum up: Based on exactly four tweets from people who were not (as far as we can tell) at the ballpark, and who were mostly or all Cubs fans, the Daily News stated, originally as indisputable fact, that multiple fans at a Cardinals game yelled “Nigger!” at a black man in a highly public setting. With no audio corroboration, no iPhone footage, no eyewitness testimony, and despite the fact that that widely reviled slur is an ejectable offense at Cardinals games.
So surely this bit of journalistic irresponsibility wouldn’t be passed on wholesale as the factual truth? Ha ha, j/k.
Oops. Did anyone ask Heyward if he heard anything?
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1SjnMQj
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