The university authorities will drop him like a bad habit. When you start losing big bucks from your sponsors, you will be shown the exit in short order.

I don't have a problem with it. I was just commenting on TteFAboB's remark about freedom of speech.

I agree: if you work for someone, it's their call.

[quick edit] No, actually I was misunderstanding the obvious, and looked up a quote about governments and the press. You're right, but I really don't have a problem with it.

I'm conflicted on this issue. The press, however modest it is in this case, should be free and is protected from government influence. That being said, with freedom comes responsibility. I believe Mr. David McSwane was irresponsible in his use of his freedom. Because of that he should have been dismissed. To do otherwise opens the floodgates to other irresponsible behavior.

I know im probably the only one who feels this way, but i think the "F bomb" is overhyped in terms of getting a point accross. I have an uncle whos an editor of a major news paper, and i recall this conversation He and I got into about language one day. I dont know how it started, but he wrote a few words down on a piece of paper and asked for my reaction or how clear the point was to me.

Then he wrote down "ye old F bomb" and asked me again. During this time it struck me odd how this articulate and well educated man who started in newspapers from being the printing press and worked his way up to editor would "stoop down" to use such a word, but in the end i saw his point. If you want to get a point across strongly, few things are as effective as a word like ****. In the end its not the word itself, but the context behind it. The choice of word is only a means of how strongly you deliver your point.

Wake me up when established media sources begin to print their articles using hip-hop or gangsta-rap language.

:nope:

Hip hop or gansta like languages, or "Eubonics" are not relevant at all. Profanity has existed long before these urbanized atrocities in the english language took place. However, like it or not, language does change from generation to generation. For proof of that, all one has to do is examine the language used in the american civil war via letters written to loved ones, and compare and contrast that to languge used in 1920's, 1930's era, to language used today.

And I believe that points to another serious issue with news media.

Who said otherwise? I was referring to the common usage of profanity via distributed professional publications, such as newspapers.

That goes both ways. Income can be lost (or gained! ) for both telling the truth or for speading rubbish.

At the end of the day, it is the people who will decide what they prefer to think what they're reading. In an open economy, a newspaper with a high subscription rate will continue to sell ads, whether slanted or not, no less than other papers with similar circulation numbers.

Well he has kept his job but the entire staff of the newspaper have taken a 10% drop in salary to compensate for the loss in advertising revenue. Wonder how they feel about that unless it was a defiant show of soladarity for him.

Let us hope it was solidarity and that the 10% cut is reinstated the minute advertising revenue picks up :yep: