Fox Sports apologized Sunday after the graphics division superimposed photographs of the Yankees and Red Sox logos over the 9/11 memorial reflecting swimming pools throughout Saturday’s “Baseball Night in America” broadcast.
The photographs have been proven in an aerial shot of the previous web site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers as the published went right into a business break through the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium.
“During last night’s telecast, we used poor judgment on the use of a graphic,” a Fox Sports spokesman mentioned in a press release.
“We sincerely apologize and regret the decision.”
The names of the two,753 victims of each lethal assaults on the World Trade Center are inscribed across the reflecting swimming pools, which honor these killed within the 9/11 terror assaults and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The swimming pools are constructed within the footprint of the fallen North and South Towers.
The cringe-worthy transfer was roundly criticized on social media.
“There are ideas that are merely bad, ideas that are downright terrible, and then there is what the Fox Sports graphic department came up with for Red Sox-Yankees, superimposing team logos on the site of the former Twin Towers,” a Twitter user wrote.
“Can someone tell Fox Sports never to do this again? Beyond offensive,” another wrote.
The Yankees beat their Boston rivals 14-1.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com