President Trump's recent remarks about Israel and Iran's ceasefire violations included a profanity, leading to varied treatment across mainstream media. While some outlets, like CNN, aired Trump's full statement uncensored, others, such as ABC 7, chose to bleep or remove the vulgarity altogether. The response varied, with some providing raw video while others sanitized the language in text or captions. Traditionally, the use of expletives is avoided in journalism due to FCC regulations and guidelines from organizations like the Associated Press, which advises against their usage unless essential for direct quotations.
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f- they're doing," Trump told a group of reporters Tuesday morning just outside the White House.
Traditionally, news outlets don't publish expletives. The Associated Press... advises reporters not to use them in stories 'unless they are part of direct quotations and there is a compelling reason for them.'
Outlets varied their approach: some censored the word entirely, while others left it completely uncensored. Several censored it in text, but embedded the raw video.
Two reasons outlets usually avoid profanity are strict FCC rules against airing such language, which could result in hefty fines, and maintaining journalistic standards.
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