Regional news programme East Midlands Today broadcast the exchange with the allegedly offending word bleeped out.
Why or why not? –How do you think American journalists can be encouraged to report on more challenging news stories, or to take reporting risks without worrying about offending government or corporate news sponsors?
They were most recently in the news for offending people with their use of the swastika, often set inside the Star of David.
A spokeswoman for Demon, which is now owned by Thus, a telecom and internet company in Glasgow, said it was striving to comply with the law requiring it to respond to complaints by removing offending messages from its news groups.
They want a bold, blunt radical outsider who will take on the establishment, speak truth to power and offend the liberal news media.
How many Republican members of Congress are offended by the news that Trump did not deliver his letter of dismissal through the usual chain of command but dispatched his longtime bodyguard, Keith Schiller, to hand-deliver it to F.B.I. headquarters?
The media should not be asking, after the atrocities in Falluja, how to avoid offending viewers and readers ("To Portray the Horror, News Media Agonize," news article, April 1).
He rarely worries about offending his journalistic colleagues or angering high-level news sources who won't return his phone calls -- because he doesn't really have any.
I have to wonder if the worry of offending the reader prohibits such pictures from more prominent display on news pages.
Speaking to NBC news ahead of yesterday's meetings Mr Romney had risked offending his British hosts when asked about London's preparedness for the Olympics.
