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ITALIAN NEWSPAPER DEPICTS FOOTBALLER MARIO BALOTELLI AS KING KONG IN OFFENSIVE CARTOON

June 27, 2012

An Italian newspaper thought it would be HILARIOUS to depict footballer Mario Balotelli as the giant black menacing ape King Kong mounting Big Ben in the cartoon above. La Gazzetta dello Sport  decided to feature the cartoon in the run up to the Euro 2012 Italy v England game which took place on Sunday. Mario as you can imagine wasn’t very happy with the depiction so the rag later issued an insincere “apology” which said something along the lines of, We’ve done nothing wrong, […]

MICHELLE OBAMA RACIST IMAGE SPARKS GOOGLE APOLOGY

November 25, 2009

Via BBC News Google has apologised over a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama that appeared when users searched for images of the US first lady. The image came top of the Google Images results for “Michelle Obama”. Google placed a notice over the picture titled “Offensive Search Results”, saying: “Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree.” Later on Wednesday the image dropped from top image results, though the BBC understands Google did not remove it. Instead, the image appeared […]