You think KCRW freaking out over one F-bomb is bad? According to Current magazine, NPR mainstay "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" recently went nuts over the word "suck."
Yup, a word even 4 year olds use to refer to something they don't like. Apparently its occassional use as a sex-oriented euphemism freaked out "Fresh Air" producers, even if the usage had nothing to do with sex and everything about simply not liking something.
As a result, a clip of a song from up and coming 19-year-old artist Nellie McKay was bleeped:
Though McKay was insulting somebody and not talking about sex, the word's sexual connections make it a no-no in the new landscape of media regulation. Miller cut out the offending word and spliced it in backwards, leaving alert Fresh Air listeners to wonder why McKay would think something "skcus."
Welcome to the world, post-2/1.
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