Poynter asks: What to do when the mayor says “asshole?”

Poynter’s Al Tompkins offers a real-live ethics question: When Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says “asshole” during a TV interview about another shooting in his town, do you run it? Trim it? Do something different online?

My extra credit: Why does The Daily Show bleep the “hole” and not the “ass?”

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