F.D.R.'s Cuss Word
Sirs:
It is rather fun to catch you in an error of fact, and the small percentage of errors is a tribute to your great organization. But it is no fun at all to point out your error in taste in quoting a statement from the President while he was voting (TIME, Nov. 13).
This illustrates two things, I think. First, that a completely accurate reporting of facts is not the chief end of journalism; second, that selection of what to print or what not to print needs to be guided by good sense and good taste, rather than by partisan...
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