Just what constitutes the definition of a "family newspaper"?
One has to wonder after reading two separate articles - published four days apart - in the Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska's largest newspaper.
In the first story, published in Thursday editions, sports reporter Mitch Sherman documented a visit by entertainer Dan Whitney (a.k.a "Larry the Cable Guy") to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln football practice. Sherman wrote on the back page of the sports section (page 6C):
"The 43-year-old Whitney, born and raised on a pig farm near Pawneee City, Neb., addressed the team by telling a few jokes - none suited for a family newspaper."
However, in Sunday editions of the World-Herald, in a front page story written by Lynn Safranek, the words "oral sex," "penis" and "plastic phallic device" were used at various times in the article:
"As he sat in a car last month negotiating a deal with a prostitute, a man touched the woman's breast, then undid his pants and exposed himself to her - to prove, as the prostitute requested, that he wasn't a cop."
"An officer, working undercover, saw a woman sitting at 24th & Maple Streets. He told her he wanted to "party" - street lingo for having sex - and offered her $20 for oral sex."
"The officer "asked if she wanted to see his (penis)." When she said yes, he complied. The suspect then reached over and grabbed" it, he wrote."
"In 1990, the World-Herald reported on a "plastic phallic device" that undercover Omaha police officers in the vice unit would show to prostitutes to prove that they were not officers."
4 comments:
The World Herald makes no sense at all. Remember when it wouldn't call the Qwest Center "The Qwest Center" and instead kept referring to it as the "Omaha arena" ? What the hell was that?
By the way, did we really NEED to know that the police have a "phallic device" that they whip out for hookers?
Nice.
This isn't even a story.
What the Weird-Harold should be writing about is how few subscribers they have. No one reads the newspaper anymore.
Maybe Tom Shatel's four-year-old daughter, Sarah, can explain to him what 'oral sex' is.
I prefer aural sex.
At my age and with the bountiful blobs of blubber it is so much easier to just talk about it than do it.
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