ESPN Yanks Broadcaster Named Robert Lee, Triggers Reuters Social Media Meltdown

At least one major media outlet has unwittingly tried to top the scorn and unwanted publicity that ESPN received when the network tried — and failed — to stop a potential firestorm by removing a broadcaster who happens to have the same name as the most decorated Confederate general from calling a University of Virginia football game next month. 

In the wake of the Worldwide Leader in Sports' decision to reassign Asian-American broadcaster Robert Lee from calling UVA's tilt against in-state rival the College of William and Mary, it apparently took the international news agency Reuters at least three times to produce an accurate headline via social media: