What the Fuck Happened to Decency Standards at Ivy League Dailies?
I like cursing in print – or in blog form - as much as the next guy. But as for the shitass Ivy League Dailies who look to the Grey Lady for guidance and inspiration, why on Earth do they like cursing so much? And more importantly, to what effect?
To no effect, friends. A brief search-and-survey of the dailies reveals language that your parents might find, well, a bit uncomfortable. The dailies print “fuck” and “shit” for no good or extenuating reason, sometimes in the form of short pornographic stories. Most of the time they use these words without even the saving grace of direct quotation. Read these brief excerpts and you’ll be soon asking yourself what the fuck has happened to our storied dailies.
Our friend Anthony Kelley at The Spec:
“Some folks were ready to fuck him up.”
From The Cornell Daily Sun:
“I’ve evolved to fuck, shit, and eat, but it’s odd that
while I’m doing these basic things I have the ability
to think.”
The Daily Pennsylvanian (taking the cursing cake!):
You want to fuck the shit out of a group of high
schoolers touring the campus.
From The Yale Daily News:
“Why won’t straight black guys leave me the fuck alone?”
After the jump: More newspapers, more cursing. Fuck yeah!
The Harvard Crimson:
“The guy tells the third girl, ‘If you don’t want to go out with me, go fuck yourself!’
The story ends with its hero in post-orgasmic ecstasy.”
The Dartmouth:
“We collectively realized our naivete and tooly-ness, stopped being quite so lame and
toned the fuck down.
(In this excerpt, The D is obviously speaking about lame-o Ivy League dailies.)
The Brown Daily Herald:
“Most of the time we wrote good shit.”
From the Prince’s incredibly credulous coverage of the Anscombe Affair:
“Nava said the two men told him to ‘shut the fuck up” as they left him lying on the
ground.”
If there’s a sign of truly world-shattering anomie, this must be it.
P.S. Our apologies for our radio silence these last couple days. Sometimes, well, we just need some time off.
