I’ve read Entertainment Weekly since the early lower-case “e” days and I can’t recall a time where the magazine hadn’t, citing its position as a family magazine, employed the practice of removing several letters from offending words spoken by interviewees. I have always thought that to be redundant and hypocritical since everyone knows what is being said anyway. In fact, it calls attention to it. So it was with great pleasure I read the quote, “Publishing is going to the shits, right?”, spoken by author and gossip column fodder Abigail Vona at the end of an article in issue #781.
Did this slip by editors? Was this intentional. Has it happened before and I never noticed? Have we finally realized that people speak this way and there’s no point in hiding it simply for vague notions of clinging to a puritanical culture that is long gone? Is this a big deal? Will anyone actually notice or care? Will there be a throng of letters written to the editor? No, it, issue #781, will just pass by as any other issue does garnering nothing other than the usual treatment any other issue receives. This is a good thing.
