http://www.wordyard.com/2003/06/19/if-it-quacks-like-a-quagmire/ Technology, politics, culture Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:33:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wordyard.com/2003/06/19/if-it-quacks-like-a-quagmire/#comment-11 Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » NYT NSFW Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:31:02 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=395#comment-11 [...] Back in 2003 my jaw dropped to find the word “asses” on the New York Times’ front page. Today, it dropped again: There, in Tom Friedman’s column, was the full quotation from President Bush’s now notorious open-mike moment at the summit in Russia in all its barnyard epithet glory. The Times hadn’t published Bush’s “shit” in its news columns, which bowdlerized the president, referring to his choice word as “a vulgarity.” But Friedman boldly seized the four-letter moment in his op-ed column. I assume this is some by-product of the bureaucratic Maginot Line that separates the Times’ news department from its editorial and op-ed pages. [...] [...] Back in 2003 my jaw dropped to find the word “asses” on the New York Times’ front page. Today, it dropped again: There, in Tom Friedman’s column, was the full quotation from President Bush’s now notorious open-mike moment at the summit in Russia in all its barnyard epithet glory. The Times hadn’t published Bush’s “shit” in its news columns, which bowdlerized the president, referring to his choice word as “a vulgarity.” But Friedman boldly seized the four-letter moment in his op-ed column. I assume this is some by-product of the bureaucratic Maginot Line that separates the Times’ news department from its editorial and op-ed pages. [...]

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