Bonfire of profanities

Today we are going to deal with the media coverage of profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, and epithets, nouns often lumped together by the Bluenose Generation as coarseness, crudeness, bawdiness, scatology or swearing. But roundheeled readers should stop rubbing their hands because the deliberately shocking subject can be treated with decorum, in plain words, without the titillating examples of "dirty words."

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James Jackson
4.0
by James Jackson - Jan. 6, 2009

Not all journalism is news. The purpose of ed-op is to clarify issues or to plead a case. Mr. Safire always stimulates thought and often a smile.

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