How about this! In the land of the free, at a newspaper that makes much of asserting its freedom to say what it likes, there is one word it feels it shouldn't use: pussy.
Jim Romenesko reports that a headline on the New York Post's website originally stated: "Osama bin Laden died like a pussy."
That was quickly replaced with "Osama bin Laden died like a wimp." Even the URL was later changed from pussy to wimp.
At the time of writing, Romenesko had not managed to obtain an explanation for the change from the paper, published by Rupert Murdoch's free speech-loving News Corp.
According to the urban dictionary, one definition of pussy is cowardly. There are, of course, others.
Source: Jim Romenesko
