Several months ago, I was listening to a noncommercial radio station from another state. The announcer was treating the newscast rather casually, frequently pausing and letting dead air go by so he could skim a story before reading it on the air. At one point, he even got up and looked around the studio for an events calendar that tied in with one of the stories he'd read. Although this wasn't the most polished, prepared broadcast journalism I'd heard, I half-admired the way he handled one story. During one story, he announced, "You know what? I'm not going to read the rest of this. It's too tawdry. (So-and-so, whose name he'd mentioned in the story), good luck to you, man..."
When was the last time you heard any announcer censor a news story like that while reading it?
