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A couple days ago Lucus Grindley posted a nice letter ‘Dear editor, anit-gay slur isn’t quotable.’ His point was that the f-word should not be printed in stories. It is just as offensive as the n-word. The story that ran in most papers about the “Grey’s Anatomy” situation included the word (New York Times excluded).

On of the top stories on ABCNews.com today is “The Other ‘F-Word’: When It Comes to Reporting on Hate Speech, All Slurs are Not Treated Equal.” I was delighted to see that Laura Coverson with ABCNews.com had picked up on the story. It would appear that she may have even read Grindley’s post (She uses a lot of the same examples). In her story she quotes a representative of NLGJA questioning if the word is necessary to tell the story. Most of the time in her story instead of spelling out the word, she wrote “f-word” or “f – t.” Yet, twice in her story she spells out the word. Why? She herself even noted that “it’s considered hate speech when used to describe a homosexual.” (We’ll have to work on not using the term homosexual at a latter date). If it’s hate speech, why publish it?