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Article snippet: “I can probably say that word, but I just won’t,” the CNN host Don Lemon said on Thursday night, as he tangled with the obscenity-laced quotations that were displayed on screen. Mr. Lemon was wrestling with a thorny problem that was challenging all news organizations: Just hours earlier, since departed), and the chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon. “The language is pretty rough here,” Mr. Lemon said, as he stumbled and tumbled over Mr. Scaramucci’s words. “Is this what the president wanted?” Over the course of Thursday night, CNN shifted the way it displayed Mr. Scaramucci’s comments. At first it included just an F and a G with asterisks between for one of the offensive words, but later it filled in the blanks until only two letters, C and K, were missing. Mr. Lemon at one point used the word “C-block’’ instead of the one Mr. Scaramucci had actually used. Some news organizations avoided Mr. Scaramucci’s vulgar rant entirely. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, wrote a front-page story devoid of any of Mr. Scaramucci’s most indecent words. But many other news organizations deemed his rant newsworthy, obscenities and all. After all, this was the White House communications director. And this was how he had chosen to communicate. “What makes them newsworthy is not just that it came from such a high source but that such objectionable language was directed at other people in the White House,” said Roy Peter Clark, a senior scholar at the Poynter Institute for journalis... Link to the full article to read more