By: Ginger Yellow
This is why I don't understand the NYT's policy at all. In the first Nixon quote, how is the swearing newsworthy, other than that it's the president doing it? It doesn't add anything to the story,...
View ArticleBy: h. s. gudnason
@Ginger Yellow The Clymer incident was actually in 2000. It was Geoff Nunberg's LL posting that happened in 2008. That doesn't detract from your point.
View ArticleBy: Mr Fnortner
It's not that the Times believes its readers are not adults, it's that the Times editors are themselves not adults. And as Dick Cavett said, "Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter...
View ArticleBy: fev
In the next column over, Nixon is credited with the phrase made famous by the transcripts: P Well, I don't give a (expletive deleted) about the lira. Even within the same text, there are limits beyond...
View ArticleBy: Michael Lydon
Very interesting. The continuous eroding of the taboos against using "dirty words" in the media is, I think, a phenomenon like the tide against smoking or the tide for sexual equality of all...
View ArticleBy: Mark F.
People do mind. You may not like the sort of people who mind, but they're out there, and they're people too. (And I have the impression they're prone to write letters to newspaper editors.) In fact,...
View ArticleBy: richard howland-bolton
I hope it's not too OT but all this public non-deletion of expletives reminds me of (if you'll excuse an almost 50-year-old memory) the famous use of 'fuck' by Kenneth Tynan in the mid-sixties in...
View ArticleBy: un malpaso
Ah, Nixon. The American id. Proud wielder of the nation's hidden obscenities.
View ArticleBy: Nicholas Waller
@ richard howland-bolton - The fox puppet is likely to have been Basil Brush, as per the picture at the bottom of this article. On puppetry - although "arsehole" is considered rather rude in Britain,...
View ArticleBy: Nicholas Waller
Apolgies - in my previous post http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11004916 is the article with a pic of Jimmy Tarbuck and Basil Brush. (I suppose this is known issue, but if I try to make an tag link...
View ArticleBy: MikeM
Interesting item in the NY Times, in talking about the relationship between Julian Assange and the Russian network where he has a talk show: "Of course, practically speaking, Mr. Assange is in bed with...
View ArticleBy: Jerry Friedman
@Nicholas Waller: Often links work in "reality" that didn't work in the preview. Let's see whether this one works. (It doesn't in the preview.) I had no idea that ending with a number was involved.
View ArticleBy: Graeme
I love it when papers still use random keystrokes to censor, eg f#%! To me it invokes the chaotic in what is otherwise banal language. Do eds think it is less offensive than f___, where prudish eyes...
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