NY Times prints 'the s-word' for first time in history

[kpete]

UPDATE: 'Shit' Happens, As Most News Outlets Report Bush Profanity

By E&P Staff

Published: July 17, 2006 3:30 PM ET updated Tuesday

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Others stepping in "shit" on the Web include The New York Times, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, Reuters, MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, Financial Times, Forbes, McClatchy's Washington bureau and Bloomberg -- even the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune.

A search of the New York Times online archives reveals that apparently it had never in its history used "shit" before. Perhaps that's why, after E&P's initial report, the Times revised earlier accounts to eliminate the word and replace it was a reference to "a vulgarity," and also scrubbed its site.

AOL featured the Reuters story on its home page but -- shades of the old Nixon tapes -- substituted "expletive" for the bad word.

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A lengthy entry in the New York Times style book about such language notes, "The Times virtually never prints obscene words, and it maintains a steep threshold for vulgar ones. In part the concern is for the newspaper’s welcome in classrooms and on breakfast tables in diverse communities nationwide. But a larger concern is for the newspaper’s character. The Times differentiates itself by taking a stand for civility in public discourse, sometimes at an acknowledged cost in the vividness of an article or two, and sometimes at the price of submitting to gibes."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002840572
via:http://www.rawstory.com/

[Atman]

1. Where's Brent Bozell when you need him?

Americans for Decency and Authoritarianism must already be firing up their hate e-mails.

[NoPasaran]

2. A sure sign of the Apocalypse

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight.

[Tesha]

5. I take it you're joking?

> The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight.

I take it you're joking? At least, their website doesn't mention this,
although I've been anticipating a move for quite a while now.



Tesha

[slackmaster]

3. How many years ago did South Park break that taboo?

Has it been five, maybe six now?

[cureautismnow]

4. Add the Orlando Sentinel to the list.

Albeit the story was buried several pages beyond the fluffy local "news."

What should we tell the children? :blush:

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Truly a historic "presidency"...

...now they'll be able to print, "Agitated, Mr. Bush flung his own shit against the wall in full view of other attending world leaders," when he does the only thing left that can top his latest foreign summit faux pas.

[Ilsa]

7. LOL. Or it could read:

"Agitated, Mr. Bush, like a chimpanzee in a zoo, flung his own shit against the wall in full view of other attending world leaders,..."