America gives a shit.

AuthorJochnowitz, George
PositionLetters - Letter to the editor

I agree with everything Jeff Jarvis says in "America Gives a Shit" (October). Therefore I was quite surprised to read the circumlocution "f-words." Surely a magazine committed to free minds and free markets can print the word fuck.

A taboo, in a certain sense, is a form of respect. A word can be so feared that it can't even be mentioned. But why should we be afraid of a term that, unlike "damnation," does not refer to a great evil or to something we are...

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