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Some News Outlets Bleep Obama's Use Of N-Word
After President Obama used the n-word in an interview on Monday to make a point about enduring racism, decisions about whether to air and write the slur varied among the media.
Fox News and MSNBC debated Obama's use of the word but bleeped it in news reports.
CNN, the owner of this website, initially did the same thing, but executives soon decided it should be aired without any editing. (Producers were advised to air it judiciously, only when the full context is included.) Similarly, CNN.com spelled out the word in its story about the interview but not in the headline.
The New York Times printed the word, while Politico covered it with dashes and some media outlets revisited their initial coverage decisions as the day wore on.
"We don't have a policy on the n-word specifically, so this morning we dashed it out as a precaution," Politico's digital editorial director Blake Hounshell told CNNMoney in an email.
In an interview with the comedian Marc Maron on the "WTF" podcast, Obama spoke candidly when he addressed the long history of racism in the United States.
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