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CNBC’s Drury apologizes for “chinks” comment

CNBC anchor Amanda Drury used the term “chinks the chain” when referring to Chinese policy on the air and then issued an apology on Friday, calling it a “poor choice of words.”

It’s not the first time that a CNBC person has used the term on the air this year.

In July reporter Robert Frank used the phrase “chink in the armor” during a discussion of Wendi Deng’s pending divorce from News Corp. and 21st Century Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch.

The comments then drew a critical response from the Asian American Journalists Association, which called the statements “offensive” and “inappropriate.”

And in July, CNBC’s Joe Kernen used a derogatory term about Indians on the air.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.