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We’ve got a gripe with the Sun-Herald sub-editor who made columnist Jacqueline Maley look just a little silly the other day.
By the way, for all you budding journos out there, “the other day” is what you write when referring to her article last Sunday so it doesn’t look quite as stale as that full bottle of piss left over from your party last night.
In her piece on the ongoing Lehrmann/Higgins saga and the latest parliamentary rumblings around who knew what and when, Maley clearly wanted to use the word shit.
We know this because she apologised in advance to let her readers know that shit was about to hit them in the face.
If Maley had been at your party last night, there’s no way she would have told other guests that she was about to be vulgar and then uttered “s dash dash dash”, right?
Of course she wouldn’t have! Stupid notion. She would have been told she’s had enough to drink and would have been made to call an Uber. No, a subeditor (and Mediocre Bytes congratulates the Sun-Herald for still having one) changed Maley’s shit.
Further proof that Maley’s column has been purposely deshitted came earlier in her column.
As you BUGgers can plainly see, Maley had no need to warn us of any looming vulgarity on her part because she clearly had no intention of writing cunt or fucked!
And of course she wouldn’t have, what with her being a very nice person and the Sun-Herald being a family-friendly, serious and conservative compact.
Oh, fuck it! You know what?
No kids are reading the Sun-Herald or its daily sibling, The Sydney Morning Herald.
Both papers are read by a much older democratic. Some will die of old age before getting through today’s weekend SMH for example. Quite a few, probably.
And trust us, they’ve been around and know shit when they see it.
So, if Maley or any other writer at the Heralds wants to write shit – and, trust us, they’re certainly capable of if – then they should be given free rein to do exactly that!
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