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- Title
Writer's Notebook: Of Sex, Dull Politicians, and Antigone.
- Authors
Erb, Lyle L.
- Abstract
This article presents views of the author on sex crimes, politicians and antigone. A correspondent once asked the author on old fashioned rape by mentioning a trial schedule for former International Boxing Federation junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryer, who has pleaded innocent to charges of sexually assaulting a female house guest. According to the author the correspondent apparently is too young to know that this is old-fashioned rape rather, the old-fashioned way of reporting rape. When the author started in the business, such euphemisms were rampant. To an old-timer, the only surprise, other than that the words quoted are contemporary, is the adjective "sexually." According to the author in his day, it would have been "criminally" or "improperly" or "indecently." Earlier the word "sex" and its derivatives were forbidden. The reports that he knows a northern Illinois newspaper that late into the 1970s banned "sexagenarian." This paper also airbrushed the navels of young girls in bathing or dancing costume, drum majorettes, and those who otherwise revealed their midriffs.
- Subjects
EUPHEMISM; REPORTERS &; reporting; ENGLISH euphemisms; SEX crimes in the press; JOURNALISM; JOURNALISTS; OFFENSES against the person; AMATEUR journalism; CRIMES against women
- Publication
Public Relations Quarterly, 1987, Vol 32, Issue 2, p32
- ISSN
0033-3700
- Publication type
Article