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tastes so good make a grown man cry

 

Enjoy the crunchy taste of super powerful extra rat shit

 

I'd say it's very 2020 for taxpayer-funded entities such as police to sue over 1A requests, but it's been going on for years.

 

did that really warrant a response?

AHAHAHAHAHA heh

 

Forgot to post this a couple of weeks ago. Our newspaper style was to use Dr. only if it was medical. So, Dr. Frank Jobe. But not Dr. Jerry Buss. It was just Jerry Buss for us. The football coach at our local high school had a doctorate. Seemed silly to day, "We played really well tonight," said Dr. Coach Joe Blow.

Just a one-shot Google search:

• Tracee Ellis Ross. Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross is officially Dr. ...
• Kanye West. One of the most famous college dropouts now has a college degree. ...
• Oprah Winfrey. ...
• Aretha Franklin. ...
• Muhammad Ali. ...
• George Foreman.
• Mike Tyson. ...
• Diddy.

 

Don't forget Dr. Bill Cosby

 

Oh, you mean Dr.7643397

 

I used to be an education reporter and I often found it pretentious when administrators insisted on the Dr. title when the only reason they got the degree was to increase their salary. A lot of teacher buy masters degrees for the same reason. I respect the work that went into it, but don't use the title outside of your job.

One of the teachers at our elementary school got his doctorate and insisted on being called Dr. Shipow. It confused the heck out of us 6 to 12 years olds who only knew doctors as MDs.

That said, I have no issue with Dr. Jill.

 

From a news style standpoint, I say use Dr. when it adds context, and it leave it out when it doesn't.
If you are interviewing my wife for a story related to her being a dean at her university, you need to identify her as Dr. on first reference. If you are interviewing her about being a D1 women's college basketball referee, then don't use it because it doesn't matter.
If you are interviewing a physician for a medical story, identify them as Dr. on first reference. If you interviewing them because the won a local 5K or built a really cool tree house or whatever, they aren't any more special than an academic doctor, dentist, eye doctor, or anyone else. In most cases, if there is a story about a church with a preacher who has a doctorate in divinity, they are called Dr. Whomever.

 

I guess it's all whatever world you are used to. Being in education, people being referred to as Dr. is no different than Mr. or Mrs. I work with people who have doctorates in education, and if I tell a student to go see one of them, it's Dr. Whomever. It's no different than one of them telling a student to go see Coach Driftwood.

 

I have a family member who has a PhD in education and worked for years as a college professor. She would use the honorific when it involved her academia world, but insisted on never being referred as "Doctor..." outside of school. I always thought that made a lot of sense.

But I also think Dr. Jill Biden can go by Dr. Jill Biden if that's what she prefers. It's someone's own call. #Freedom.