I don’t think the paper has anything to apologize for. A black hockey player stands out, particularly in that picture.
From Jim Romenesko: NEWSPAPERS APOLOGIZE FOR CUTLINE IDENTIFYING BLACK HOCKEY PLAYER AS ‘DARK GUY IN THE MIDDLE’
The cutline ran in the Sun and the Province, which also apologized. Sun deputy editor/digital Gillian Burnett writes on Twitter: “That cutline, written by a photog, should NEVER have been written, let alone made it online. Egregious error that we regret.”
