Dear Dan is a College Media Matters series featuring my perspectives and advice on serious and quirky college media issues of the moment. Most installments include a question or quandary submitted by a student journalist, professional journalist, journalism professor or student press adviser.

For this installment, CMM Editorial Fellows Nizia Alam, Griffin Guinta, Nicole Brown & Olivia Krauth offer their takes on the following question: Is it ever acceptable, or even advantageous, to use vulgar language in front of a source who's already cursing up a storm themselves?

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The Student Journalist Adventure Series: Is Cursing with a Source A-OK or F****ed Up? (#2)

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The Student Journalist Adventure Series: Is Cursing with a Source A-OK or F****ed Up? (#2)

Dan Reimold