A Bay Area news station likely wants a mulligan after dropping a racially insensitive headline in its coverage of the Atlanta Braves being bounced out of the MLB postseason.
KTVU, the Bay Area’s Fox affiliate, recapped the St. Louis Cardinals’ win over the Braves in Game 5 of the National League Division Series with a chyron that read, “Braves Scalped.”
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There’s not any good time to roll out a “scalped” headline, but this was a particularly bad one.
As you can imagine, this being the social-media age and all, this spread quickly and plenty of people wanted answers:
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