What to do with ****hole?

[canucklehead]

Don't print it. Why offend what's left of your readership when you don't have to. Everyone can figure out what word is being censored.

 

[RedCanuck]

I've always said if it's worth reporting on, spell it out. It's part of the language. If it seems gratuitous and you can paraphrase and avoid it, that's fine. If it adds valuable colour and impacts the tone of a quote, use it. And if it is the story, as "****hole" was, you have a duty to use it.

Like others, I'm not sure I'd blow it up in a headline, but I'd definitely run it.

 

[wicked]

I've always said if it's worth reporting on, spell it out. It's part of the language. If it seems gratuitous and you can paraphrase and avoid it, that's fine. If it adds valuable colour and impacts the tone of a quote, use it. And if it is the story, as "****hole" was, you have a duty to use it.

Like others, I'm not sure I'd blow it up in a headline, but I'd definitely run it.

I don't disagree with you, but I'd like to know how you feel about the N-word.

 

[MNgremlin]

_ _ _ _hole, for both subhead and AP story.

 

[Azrael]

While I understand the debate over whether or not to print verbatim a presidential obscenity or vulgarity, I don't understand what circulation numbers have to do with it.

Are small town residents somehow more delicate? More pious? More refined?

Are theirs not the very kitchen tables around which the administration claims these phrases arise?

Do they not deserve an accurate representation of what's being said and done in their name?

 

[Slacker]

 

[Doc Holliday]

While I understand the debate over whether or not to print verbatim a presidential obscenity or vulgarity, I don't understand what circulation numbers have to do with it.

Are small town residents somehow more delicate? More pious? More refined?

Are theirs not the very kitchen tables around which the administration claims these phrases arise?

Do they not deserve an accurate representation of what's being said and done in their name?

Then you don't understand how journalism and small town politics work in middle America. But, then again, that's why the media has been wrong about a lot of things for about two years now.

 

[Azrael]

Then you don't understand how journalism and small town politics work in middle America.

Then by all means, please educate me.

 

[HanSenSE]

I'm imagining there were sighs of relief from deskers everywhere when Nancy Pelosi described the Republicans' spending bill as "a bowl of doggy doo."

 

[I Should Coco]

While I understand the debate over whether or not to print verbatim a presidential obscenity or vulgarity, I don't understand what circulation numbers have to do with it.

Are small town residents somehow more delicate? More pious? More refined?

Are theirs not the very kitchen tables around which the administration claims these phrases arise?

Do they not deserve an accurate representation of what's being said and done in their name?

You raise some good questions, Azrael.

I certainly don't think anything needs to be "dumbed down" for smaller circulation dailies, but since the emphasis is mainly on local news, I think when you run stories about Trump or other political squabbles, they need to be worth the space. The president disparaging African countries with profanity obviously was. I think our shop's decision to leave ****hole in the AP story and work around it in the headline was the right call.

We've had several readers from our deeply conservative part of the country object to AP's coverage of Trump, saying it's inherently biased against him. At first I laughed it off ... but then I thought, the Associated Press — at its best — is trying to provide coverage for every news organization that subscribes. Many of those serve readers who are blindly loyal to Trump, many others serve readers who automatically despise everything he says.

Is it possible to serve both of those groups with a single, impartial politics story? I'm not so sure.

 

[Doc Holliday]

You raise some good questions, Azrael.

I certainly don't think anything needs to be "dumbed down" for smaller circulation dailies, but since the emphasis is mainly on local news, I think when you run stories about Trump or other political squabbles, they need to be worth the space. The president disparaging African countries with profanity obviously was. I think our shop's decision to leave ****hole in the AP story and work around it in the headline was the right call.

We've had several readers from our deeply conservative part of the country object to AP's coverage of Trump, saying it's inherently biased against him. At first I laughed it off ... but then I thought, the Associated Press — at its best — is trying to provide coverage for every news organization that subscribes. Many of those serve readers who are blindly loyal to Trump, many others serve readers who automatically despise everything he says.

Is it possible to serve both of those groups with a single, impartial politics story? I'm not so sure.

If the right call was to run ****hole in the headline, then how come 99 percent of newspapers didn't do it? The point is these assholes are taking this opinion because it makes Trump look bad and furthers their agenda. Truth is, it should NEVER go in the headline no matter if Trump, Obama or Honest Abe said it. It doesn't belong and that's the bottom line.

 

[Slacker]

If the right call was to run ****hole in the headline, then how come 99 percent of newspapers didn't do it? The point is these assholes are taking this opinion because it makes Trump look bad and furthers their agenda. Truth is, it should NEVER go in the headline no matter if Trump, Obama or Honest Abe said it. It doesn't belong and that's the bottom line.

There's your headline. Go big, six columns:
Assholes still butthurt over ‘****hole’

 

[Doc Holliday]

There's your headline. Go big, six columns:
Assholes still butthurt over ‘****hole’

I like your style.

 

[studthug12]

If the right call was to run ****hole in the headline, then how come 99 percent of newspapers didn't do it? The point is these assholes are taking this opinion because it makes Trump look bad and furthers their agenda. Truth is, it should NEVER go in the headline no matter if Trump, Obama or Honest Abe said it. It doesn't belong and that's the bottom line.

And thaaaaaat's the bottom line, because Doc Holliday said so!!

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Wipe.


Duh.