Chicago Tribune
A Chicago Tribune
editorial about a company cautioning Santas not to say "Ho, ho, ho" because it's demeaning to women brought in a lot of comments, but they were quickly deleted. "Is the newspaper so politically correct that anything that might be offensive is forbidden? Are we afraid of sounding like Don Imus?" writes ombud
Timothy McNulty. "What happened ... was that a computer program automatically filtered out all comments using 'ho' -- street short for whore -- until an alert online editor used good judgment and common sense to override the filter."
