why cunt you say that?
an interesting emergency at the chicago tribune a few weeks ago:
CHICAGO (AP) - A preprinted section was pulled from Wednesday's Chicago Tribune because it contained an article discussing the use of a vulgar slang term in referring to women, according to the newspaper.
The article, under the headline "You c-nt say that," was on the front page of a weekly section called WomanNews.
(read here for the sun-times' more in-depth story, with a hi-larious account of editors and company employees physically pulling the papers from the presses...)
i first heard about it from one of my bosses, and was shocked -- i thought they'd actually printed the word(cunt is the offensive word, for those daft ones still in the dark :D). but after reading that CUNT was never printed, that the reporter used words that rhymed with CUNT, i thought differently (see, i can print the word! :D).
i think the story idea was a good one; it's a shame that the higher ups believed that the content of the story was "inappropriate" for their readers. the case can be made that midwestern sensibilities are more delicate than those of northeasterners and west coasters(i have a "northeast" mindset as far as this is concerned, even tho i'm a southerner), metropolitan area or not, but i still don't see a problem with the story, as long as the actual word isn't printed. you see references to "the n-word" and other so-called vulgar words referred to in print; if the story was well written, why not print a story on an interesting subject IN THE WOMEN'S PAGES, which is for the group it most directly affects?
of course, the people in trouble, the two main eds for the trib's features section, were black. how come black folks are almost always in the center or somewhere near any kind of newspaper scandal these days? (and they wonder why there's so few people of color in the news industry...)
CHICAGO (AP) - A preprinted section was pulled from Wednesday's Chicago Tribune because it contained an article discussing the use of a vulgar slang term in referring to women, according to the newspaper.
The article, under the headline "You c-nt say that," was on the front page of a weekly section called WomanNews.
(read here for the sun-times' more in-depth story, with a hi-larious account of editors and company employees physically pulling the papers from the presses...)
i first heard about it from one of my bosses, and was shocked -- i thought they'd actually printed the word(cunt is the offensive word, for those daft ones still in the dark :D). but after reading that CUNT was never printed, that the reporter used words that rhymed with CUNT, i thought differently (see, i can print the word! :D).
i think the story idea was a good one; it's a shame that the higher ups believed that the content of the story was "inappropriate" for their readers. the case can be made that midwestern sensibilities are more delicate than those of northeasterners and west coasters(i have a "northeast" mindset as far as this is concerned, even tho i'm a southerner), metropolitan area or not, but i still don't see a problem with the story, as long as the actual word isn't printed. you see references to "the n-word" and other so-called vulgar words referred to in print; if the story was well written, why not print a story on an interesting subject IN THE WOMEN'S PAGES, which is for the group it most directly affects?
of course, the people in trouble, the two main eds for the trib's features section, were black. how come black folks are almost always in the center or somewhere near any kind of newspaper scandal these days? (and they wonder why there's so few people of color in the news industry...)
posted by maryann at 11/24/2004 05:17:00 PM
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