Companies try to have it both ways with racist online ads

You may have heard about the recent online Mountain Dew ad, the minute-long spot, which has been removed from Odd Future’s YouTube channel and Mountain Dew’s website, depicting a police officer goading a severely wounded white woman into picking out her attacker from a lineup of four black men and a goat. It was created by Tyler The Creator, a hip hop artist. Who's edgy.

Boston bombing aftermath: how did the media do?

If you were to say, "pretty shabbily," we would agree with you.

"Illegal immigrant" phrase dropped from AP Stylebook

The AP Stylebook announced on Tuesday that it would no longer use the term “illegal immigrant” or use “illegal” to describe a person, but rather would describe an action “such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.”

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