Paul Gonzalez is a newspaper reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press and he wrote a story for the paper about last minute shopping that ran on Christmas Day.

This is how his byline looked in the paper:

WTF? Why would someone do that? 

Gonzalez says that it wasn't him and that is not how he submitted his byline. "I would just like to reiterate that I did not make that edit to my byline," he said. Gonzalez declined further comment.

Since we don't think he would change the spelling of his name or change his title we believe him.

A couple of days later the paper issued an apology, saying. "In Monday's News-Press, one of our employees changed another employee's byline to reflect an offensive slur. The News-Press has taken immediate and swift action with this employee; we do not tolerate any form of harassment in the workplace. We apologize to our readers."

Loved to know how this made it into print and who was responsible? 

H/T KEYT