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Political correctness and the American newspaper: the case of the Los Angeles Times Stylebook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Jack Miles
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Abstract

ON DECEMBER 2, 1993, David Nyhan of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “The Thought Police Strike Again.” In a parody of novelist Raymond Chandler's immortal Los Angeles detective, Philip Marlowe, Nyhan wrote:

“I was in my office, on the fringe of the ghetto, feeling gypped because a check had bounced, watching the crazy divorcée in the next office, a real babe who used to be a nifty co-ed before she married her hillbilly. He was a piece of white trash whose holy roller ancestors fought the Indians.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 14 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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