If the Vice President says it...
From the Washington Post: If the Vice President says a very bad word, can your paper print it? In his Media Notes column, Howard Kurtz looks at his own paper's decision to print in full a word Dick Cheney used in a verbal altercation with Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. "The New York Times said Vice President Cheney had used 'an obscenity' ... The Los Angeles Times had Cheney saying 'Go . . . yourself.' CNN said Cheney used 'the F-word,'" Kurtz reported. So why did his own paper decide to be more specific? "When the vice president of the United States says it to a senator in the way in which he said it on the Senate floor," said Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., "readers need to judge for themselves what the word is because we don't play games at The Washington Post and use dashes." What is your paper's policy?
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Here's an interesting question: if cheney were to use the f-word, and it happens to be in a situation where C-SPAN is broadcasting live (or CNN, or...) who gets fined by the FCC? And wouldn't that just be precious? I almost hate to say it, but I side ... Read More
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