[July 4th]

I understand your concern, but the general rule in journalism isn't that strict. Like writing a paper, you must use the "long form" first, but after that it may be shortened. It's not an intentional form of disrespect.

For example: The announcer may start a segment with, "President Bush will be meeting with several world leaders on the White House lawn this afternoon, after giving a speech on tariffs and trade at the Heritage Foundation." The announcer may then continue with, "Some topics from Bush's speech include steel quotas, etc...", or they may use "Some topics from the President's speech include..."

[Gabz]

I don't see what is wrong with people.........I keep coming back and reading the latest osts on this thread, but it's not getting any better.

You beat me to the explanation of why this is done by about 50 seconds - yet no one seems to want to acknowlege what is just general SOP.

It's a matter of expediency - whether saving print space or broadcast time - the title is used the first time and then dropped.

I will admit that occasionally it is probably done out of total disrespect for a person, but in general that is not the case, even in the alphabet soup of print and broadcast media.