SteveS: Crude Language In The Newspaper

I received a thoughtful e-mail this morning from a reader upset with the headline on today’s Doug Clark column. The headline read: “Spokane police chief the Real Freakin’ Deal.” We receive similar complaints quite often about crude language. Last week, we had a really lively internal argument about the use of the a-hole term in a 7 breakout quote/ Steve Smith , News Is A Conversation. More here .

Question: So, what do you think?