THE Reverend Wright

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/3/2012 03:10 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>I thought it was the London Times, not the New York Times, but I was
>wrong too--should have paid closer attention to the URL. It's the
>Johannesburg (RSA) Times.

Hah!  I didn't even follow the URL, just assumed it was NY.  And then
found that the on-line NYT did have an article on the (Rev.)
Sunday!  And was reinforced in my mistaken assumption. I sincerely
apologize for comparing the NYT to the JT.

Joel


>     VS-)
>
>On 9/3/2012 3:00 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>/begin-formula; I apologize if anyone was offended that I did not
>>read this and other prior messages before I wrote my recent own
>>message. /end-formula;  But I note that --
>>
>>1)  My example was from the Monday (New England, print)
>>edition.  (Victor's is from the on-line site, and dated Sunday,
>>presumably at a time when its was Monday in Korea.)
>>
>>2)  The headline Monday is "Rev. S M M ...", but it occupies the
>>whole width so there was no room for "The".
>>
>>3)  The illustration in the print edition says "The Rev. S M M ...".
>>
>>4)   The on-line version's illustration now says "The Rev. S M M
>>...".  Has the on-line version been corrected?
>>
>>Joel
>>
>>At 9/3/2012 01:16 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>>Update.
>>>
>>>The Sunday Times used "The Rev. Sun Myung Moon" in the obit title, but
>>>the photo caption just above reads, "Evangelist Reverend Sun Myung Moon".
>>>
>>>http://goo.gl/0q7UP
>>>
>>>TIME uses "the". http://goo.gl/xRsPB  So do the Seattle Times, The
>>>Independent, ITV and the Guardian, Salon. But not The Star (Malaysia),
>>>Radio Australia, WUSA, the Irish Times, Examiner.com, Radio New Zealand.
>>>
>>>Take it or leave it. On the other hand, those are all obits, so I would
>>>have expected a more formal style.
>>>
>>>      VS-)
>
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