Comments on: NYT NSFW http://www.wordyard.com/2006/07/21/nyt-nsfw/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ben Zimmer http://www.wordyard.com/2006/07/21/nyt-nsfw/#comment-47 Ben Zimmer Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:53:41 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1071#comment-47 Thanks for the mention. By the way, as I noted in my Language Log post, the New York Times did actually print Bush's <i>shit</i> in a news report -- you can find it in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?ei=5090&en=46150dc0660f0beb&ex=1310875200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">"overview" piece</a> by Steven Erlanger and Jad Mouawad. Why it appeared there and not in Jim Rutenberg's piece which was specifically about Bush's overheard comments, I have no idea. Thanks for the mention. By the way, as I noted in my Language Log post, the New York Times did actually print Bush’s shit in a news report — you can find it in the “overview” piece by Steven Erlanger and Jad Mouawad. Why it appeared there and not in Jim Rutenberg’s piece which was specifically about Bush’s overheard comments, I have no idea.

]]> By: Lance Knobel http://www.wordyard.com/2006/07/21/nyt-nsfw/#comment-46 Lance Knobel Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:33:10 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1071#comment-46 I suspect you're right about different standards for columnists and news, but you should read Benjamin Zimmer's definitive post on the Times's history of using "shit": http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003367.html If you follow the link to his earlier item on the subject, you'll find a great quote from AM Rosenthal on his paper's use of "shit" in its publication of the Nixon tapes: "We'll take 'shit' from the president, but nobody else." I suspect you’re right about different standards for columnists and news, but you should read Benjamin Zimmer’s definitive post on the Times’s history of using “shit”: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003367.html

If you follow the link to his earlier item on the subject, you’ll find a great quote from AM Rosenthal on his paper’s use of “shit” in its publication of the Nixon tapes: “We’ll take ’shit’ from the president, but nobody else.”

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