At the Olympic games in Rio, The Mercury News reports that top U.S. swimmer “Michael Phelps shares historic night with African-American.”
The subject of The Mercury News’s unspecific racial disinterest is in fact Stanford junior Simone Manuel, who not only has a name and is neither Phelps’ sister or wife, but is the gold medal winner in the 100-meter freestyle event.
The Mercury News later apologized for its “insensitve headline.“