Doing the Double Standard Dance…Old Media the gift that keeps giving.
While accepting an award at the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet, on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassination, Village Voice Executive Editor Michael Lacey, who co-owns the Phoenix New Times and who has ownership in more alternative weeklies across the U.S. than anyone, gave a short vulgar acceptance speech in which he called another reporter a prick, told a story about a deceased reporter’s wife falling off her chair inebriated and implied she kept calling him afterwards from Rio De Janeiro as if she wanted to have an affair, and then referred to the deceased reporter as “my n*****” and said he fired him. Media Mythbusters Blog » Blog Archive » Vulgarity and Racism – the Old Media Standard
Hmm..that seems to be a mite more inflammatory than anything I have heard recently. Guess it is ok when it comes from the left?
There used to be a day when that “word” you know the N word didn’t hold the mystique it does today, where the mere mention of it brings down entire nations…or seems to. Watch this little ditty with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor for an education on the correct attitudes towards this word.
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