[Skywarner]

"Ah, but kind sir, the national news media ARE following the dnc's latest faux fax sheet about honorifics and political titles: IN EVERY recent story about Howard Dean, they have been using "Dr. Dean" ten-twenty times per story!"

I thought I was the only one who noticed the "Dr. Dean" title being used. Yes, he is a doctor, and deserves to be called as such. But it seems like that's the title of choice these past several days from almost all of the conventional media TV outlets (about the same time the news was leaking out about Dean's issues in VT as gov).

[AmishDude]

Interesting fact: According to a friend of mine who is a reporter, a Ph. D. is not to be referred to as Dr. in a news story, but an M. D. is.

I may be biased, but I think that Drs. Armey and Gingrich demonstrated greater intellectual acumen in achieving their degrees than someone with a Mediocre Doctorate.

On the other hand, those humanities Ph.D.s come out of Cracker Jack boxes.