[part where I apologize for being scarce by validate it by explaining once again that this just means I'm busy with work, so it's good thing]
Not once but twice in last Sunday's Arts & Leisure section, the NYTimes repeated my favorite of its ridiculous policies - instead of printing perfectly printable words, ie the title of the marvelous Broadway play The Motherfucker with the Hat (see it!), it censors itself/its interviewee by glazing over whatever was obviously said by saying it's unprintable. Once toward the end of an article about Andrew Lloyd Webber (which should be unprintable since his recent work is unlistenable), and then by calling Cee-Lo's marvelous song "Forget You," which has become the acceptable title, which is stupid.
As I've explained before, this drives me batshit fucking crazy. Because it's untrue. These words can be printed - look! I just did it myself with a free blogging platform! So really it's just their (understandable) policy not to print them. So that's how they should phrase it. Or! Have a New York People Who Can Handle Language version of the paper, and another Ultra Conservative And Worried About Superficial Societal Problems Like "Bad" Words version for whoever is writing in a blog that's the polar opposite of this one.
Also in the Arts section, Justin Timberlake. Love. And I don't even want to make out with him, I just want to go see dance movies together. I mean, it's about time You Got Served had a sequel, amIright???
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