Discuss the use of obscene language in journalism and the potential psychological motives behind it.
It is not just "fuck" but "dick" and "scumbags" -  all in the first three paragraphs at which point I gave up reading any further. The journalistic standards of most of the Daily Maverick regular contributors are something that make reading DM a pleasure each morning. As a doctor, I would be interested to hear a psychologist's opinion of why Richard Poplak appears to be compelled to include gratuitous adolescent obscenities in his articles.