Take a look at the headline that popped up not once, but twice in the newsfeed this afternoon for the Cuban-oriented coverage that constitutes its own section in the Miami Herald: “Mark Cuban’s HDNet to show fights.” Funny thing is, the dot-com billionaire turned NBA franchise owner who also owns said high definition network is neither Cuban nor intimately related to anything Cuban. If you must know, he’s Jewish enough to have named his cat Meshugana. Rather than skew this as some news editor’s urge to mistake a person’s name for his background on a slow news day (in which case, Irina Slutskaya is fucked), we’ll blame the IT guys at the paper for rigging their program to display any story with the word ‘Cuban’ in it. Our programmers make mundane mistakes like that all the time, like leaving their underwear on our couch right before grandma pays a surprise visit.

Mark Cuban’s HDNet to show fights [Miami Herald]
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