Sunday, September 30, 2007

The problem with kids today is that they're too succinct

From this morning’s New York Times: College Daily’s Vulgarity Is Now Free-Speech Issue
On the campus of Colorado State University, opinion is divided over whether a terse editorial that ran in the student newspaper on Sept. 21 was an exercise of free speech or immature judgment.

The four-word message began with “Taser this” and added a four-letter expletive directed at President Bush, in a type size larger than most newspaper headlines. The message was “the view of The Collegian editorial board," the daily newspaper stated....

Greg Luft, chairman of Colorado State’s journalism department, said every college newspaper in the country exhibits “occasional exuberance” on its pages....
—Yeah, and occasional succinctitude, too.

(Sorry. We bowdlerized the original headline with that goddam asterisk. Try an' guess what the original word said. )

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You vulgarian!

Bohrstein said...

Reminds me of this show I saw on TV today --

This girl writes down on paper how she feels about her dad, because she's "not talking to him." He reads it aloud, "I hate you." He says "Oh, very concise." - She responds, "I revised it, the first draft was only two words."

*corny crowd laughter*

Anonymous said...

ATEP = Another Tremendously Expensive Project

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...