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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 10:32:51 “Mr. Vance used a jocular and slightly vulgar epithet to describe the temperature, where he was wearing jeans and a parka, but no hat or gloves.” The “Gray Lady” New York Times often seems to think it’s still 1955. Fearful of offending blue-haired doyennes on The Upper East Side, it can’t bring itself to use a character-revealing direct quote from a Yale-educated faux “Everyman” who said, “It’s cold as shit here!” |
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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 13:28:50 The Washington Post uses the quote: “It’s cold as shit here,” he said to laughter. “Nobody told me.” I remember getting into a dispute at CBS News Radio when Trump, in his first term, surprisingly used the word “bullshit” in a speech. I wanted to air the sound bite in my newscast to let listeners hear the kind of guy he is. I was overruled. The head of standards and practices eventually decided it COULD be used selectively but by then the story was old. So it went largely unreported. |
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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 14:50:22 The argument made to me against using the sound bite wasn’t so much that it was in bad taste (though that was a concern) but that the FCC might fine individual stations that aired it. My response was that if Trump’s own FCC would dare to fine a station for using an excerpt from a public speech made by Trump, that’s a legal fight we should be eager to have. |
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Föderation EN Sa 29.03.2025 15:31:31 So far it has only been fought occasionally on the airwaves, confronting politicians (in the loosest sense of the word) with their own words, and fact checking them when they deny having ever said some thing. More journalists need to do this, and a legal action might make more journalists and their editors wake up. |
