South Carolina Newspaper Prints Insensitive Headline About QB Ryan Hilinski After Loss

By Larry Leo•Sep 23, 20194:00 am•Discuss the story53
South Carolina Newspaper Prints Insensitive Headline About QB Ryan Hilinski After Loss
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After South Carolina QB Ryan Hilinski's poor outing against Missouri on Saturday, going 13-for-30 for only 166 yards and walking away with a 34-14 loss, The State Newspaper wrote a rather insensitive headline about him. Per The Big Lead...
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Ryan Hilinski has had far, far worse days in his life, such as January 16, 2018, the day his older brother, Tyler, committed suicide. It was later revealed that Tyler suffered from stage one chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The Hilinski family later started the charity Hilinski's Hope, dedicated to destigmatizing mental illness.
Here was the headline after Saturday's game...

The paper later apologized...
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fibonaccisquared•85 months
Yikes...
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MindRiot•85 months
Par for the course in media.
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surgicalvenom•85 months
I get that the headline has to do with football only. But how does that get past at least 3 editors and the printing manager? No one in the sports department knew about the charity? They had to have 2 to 3 meetings before it went to press, how does no one catch it?
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brewdrees•85 months
Somebody has to be fired after this. Period.
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SCLibertarian•85 months
There isn't a newspaper in this country with a more adversarial relationship with its hometown team than The State. I have no doubt this wasn't a mistake. You'd have to believe both the author and editor had no idea of the starting QB's brother's suicide (which was national news) and his family's non-profit.
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Kentucker•85 months
What a shitty newspaper. Hope this kills it for y’all. No pun intended.
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supadave3•85 months
I can't see the headline. I've been having this issue on here lately.
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Tigah Jr•85 months
The NYT is taking notes.
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paleoTiger•85 months
The headline shouldn't have been used. What's more egregious is the quote from the story. Why would the writer bring up the hardship of his personal, family tragedy in a story about his poor performance in a game? The two have nothing to do with one another. Can't believe it made it past the editor's desk.
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SpartyGator•85 months
That's terrible. They should be ashamed
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Mike da Tigah•85 months
That’s pretty much awful journalism.
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DVinBR•85 months
Should have made a insensitive headline about the Athletic Director for hiring Muschamp
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WhoDatNC•85 months
What a cock!
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LSUSaints•85 months
He knew the connection when he wrote it.
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uway•85 months
Why is everyone so sure of this?
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jdutto3•85 months
"Why is everyone so sure of this?"

So, why male models? (Zoolander)
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NASA_ISS_Tiger•85 months
That's the problem with today's media...printed or otherwise...they believe they are infallible and print whatever "gotcha" type headline they want without regard humans. And no, I'm no SJW, libtard etc. I hate the media for what they can get away with...and this is just another example of it...and people essentially can not retaliate against them.
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wilceaux•85 months
Unless you're the Saudi government.
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Vestigial Morgan•85 months
Up there with "chink in the armor" headline about Jeremy Linn.
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ForeverEllisHugh•85 months
That one was a hilarious play on words. This one is actually demented.
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Play_Neck•85 months
That paper should make a big-arse donation to back up its "sorry" tweet.
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PensaTigers•85 months
Too bad they likely did it for publicity.
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loopback•85 months
Anyone who's not a SJW, liberal, tard, count can realize that the headline has absolutely nothing to do with the Charity and everything to do with him having a bad game. I swear, the world we live in is dying, outrage everywhere has taken over common sense. The article is about a football game ONLY, it's quite possible that the writer didn't even see the connection to the charity because they were focused on the football game and Hilinski's poor performance. People these days need more to do, go out and make the world a better place instead of sitting around waiting for some random connection in the headlines to bitch about.
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StupidBinder•85 months
Yeah, because whenever a player has a bad outing, it’s a coming saying to say that the player’s “hope sank”. Totally makes sense. Pointing our unnecessary dickishness isn’t outrage. Sound like you’re just looking for reasons to be outraged yourself, but I’m sure that take makes me a world-ending-SJW-liberal-tard amirite?
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imjustafatkid•85 months
Nah man. This was classless.
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loopback•85 months
If you cant use common sense and realize it was an innocent mistake and not intentional. Then yes, it absolutely does. You can't prove it was done intentionally and why would there be reason to? There are SO much bigger things in life to get your panties in a twist over.
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KennabraTiger•85 months
Who the frick thought this would be a good idea?
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Buckeye Jeaux•85 months
"The State Newspaper" thinks a tiny tweet makes up for a full-page horrifically unkind blunder?
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PensaTigers•85 months
Wasn't even heartfelt.
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The Torch•85 months
Some dumb arse millennial was patting himself on the back when he came up with that clever headline - FAIL
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