{"id":7015,"date":"2017-11-08T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2017-11-08T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:42:15","slug":"a-matter-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7015","title":{"rendered":"A matter of style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  The <i>New York Times<\/i> is getting its quadrennial abuse over its style-sheet, specifically how it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/08\/reader-center\/why-does-nyt-call-president-mr-trump.html?smid=tw-nytnational&#038;smtyp=cur&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">references the president<\/a> in news stories.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Readers occasionally express concern about articles referring to the president as &#8220;Mr. Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>The complaint isn&#8217;t new to me.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;President Trump&#8221; (or President Obama, or President Bush) on first reference, and &#8220;Mr. Trump&#8221; or &#8220;the president&#8221; (lowercase) thereafter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>Search around, and you will find that I have <i><u>never<\/u><\/i> used the words &#8220;President Trump&#8221; &#8212; nor will I.  I quote others accurately, and you will find the words in quotes, but you will never find them used by me.  The Donald, the Liar-in-Chief, the Buffoon-in-Chief, the Cartoon Character-in-Chief is &#8230; #NotMyPresident, and he won&#8217;t be getting the honorific that goes with the office he has so grievously soiled.  At least not around here.<\/p>\n<p>All he is getting from me is the loathing and contempt he deserves from decent people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know? The New York Times is getting its quadrennial abuse over its style-sheet, specifically how it references the president in news stories. Readers occasionally express concern about articles referring to the president as &#8220;Mr. Trump.&#8221; [ &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7015\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}