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Some give `Tropic Thunder' an `F' over the `R' word
Kelly McBride, senior ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute, a school and resource center for journalists, said the profession has to be wary of spin. But when it comes to the word in this film that has proved so incendiary, she said, "That's not even a question. It went by the wayside years ago because it's so offensive."
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