There was a feature in the New York Times on Wednesday about an on-air tiff between WNBC-TV anchors Sue Simmons and Chuck Scarborough in which the former ripped the latter with an “eyebrow-raising word-bomb” (is that the Times attempt at a little hipster patois?). What was the word used? Well, you had to find out elsewhere because it was “not publishable in the newspaper.” Which basically means that the world’s paper of record cannot accurately quote people, books, movies, war protestors, plays and spats between TV anchors (one wonders if that might have just a little impact on one’s understanding of a subject).
Years ago, I was in Miami covering Super Bowl XXIX for the Village Voice. I remember my press credential read “New York Village Voice” instead of just Village Voice, and so alphabetically, I sat in the press section next to a really nice young reporter from the New York Times. I introduced myself, and when he saw for whom I was writing, he looked at me and said, “The Voice! That’s great. You guys can write ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’.” The Times’ profanity policy is fucking weak-kneed bullshit and they can print that. Oh wait, they can’t.
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