Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Nov 6, 2000 | by John Elvin

"I cleaned out pig pens, yes, I did...."

-- Farmer Al Gore in remarks last year to ABC's Diane Sawyer, resurfacing in an examination of various claims of rural expertise, most recently an old boast involving the raising of 10,000 chickens.

"In schools and workplaces around the country, women, gays, and the unconventionally gendered are often subject to the ultimate sexual harassment -- unspoken verbal abuse."

-- A send-up on the Slate Website featuring the agenda of a fictitious "People for the Correct Way."

"Some of our reporters who cover pop music and other kinds of popular culture feel that they need to accurately reflect the way their sources talk."

-- Andrea Behr, deputy copy editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, quoted in a column by Assistant Managing Editor Liz Lufkin on controversy in the newsroom over use, modification or nonuse of the phrase "mother f*****."