Will New York Times print shit?

[kurth]

'Shit' Happens, As Most News Outlets Report Bush Profanity
By E&P Staff
Published: July 17, 2006 3:30 PM ET

... While it's too early to know what papers will do in print tomorrow, the verdict is in on Web usage. Many top papers and news organizations freely printed the word on Monday, although The Associated Press, following its stylebook, offered two versions.

Others stepping in "shit" on the Web include The New York Times, Newsday, 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 has never in its history used "shit" before.

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

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002840572

[C_U_L8R]

1. all the shit that's fit to print ???

just askin' :-)

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Damn

You owe me a keyboard.

[C_U_L8R]

9. gesundheit !!

[Warpy]

2. Yeah, like they are all too holy

to say "shit" if they have a mouthful of it.

You'd think they'd have plenty of practice after the corporate and administration ass sucking they've been doing for so long.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Never stopped them before

Judith Miller is a prime example.

[SophieZ]

12. Canuck - - ya beat me to it. Dang!

[Canuckistanian]

13. Thank you, I'm here 'til Thursday....

Please.... tip your waiters.

[patricia92243]

4. Actually, just saying "expletive" makes one think he said something really

naughty.

[longship]

5. DU Headline: "NY Times Doesn't Print Shit"

:evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. I guess they'll have to paint the Old Grey Lady

Brown?

[bluestateguy]

8. The Times is very prissy

They won't.

[Radio_Lady]

10. Geeze, now we have a pResident who we can have a beer with...

and take a shit with.

I'm waiting for the day I can say, 'Ta-ta, turd!' I expect it to be sometime in January 2009. Maybe he'll get this as a going away gift.



http://www.turdtwister.com/

[Lowell]

11. Of course they will

the NYT prints a lot of shit.

[dorkulon]

14. NYT has been printing shit for years.

Shit by Tom Friedman, David Brooks, Elisabeth Bumiller, etc.