dear new york times, it's President Obama

[spanone]

Mr. Obama and Israel

After taking office last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel privately told many Americans and Europeans that he was committed to and capable of peacemaking, despite the hard-line positions that he had used to get elected for a second time. Trust me, he told them. We were skeptical when we first heard that, and we’re even more skeptical now.

All this week, the Obama administration had hoped Mr. Netanyahu would give it something to work with, a way to resolve the poisonous contretemps over Jerusalem and to finally restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. It would have been a relief if they had succeeded. Serious negotiations on a two-state solution are in all their interests. And the challenges the United States and Israel face — especially Iran’s nuclear program — are too great for the leaders not to have a close working relationship.

But after a cabinet meeting on Friday, Mr. Netanyahu and his right-wing government still insisted that they would not change their policy of building homes in the city, including East Jerusalem, which Palestinians hope to make the capital of an independent state.

President Obama made pursuing a peace deal a priority and has been understandably furious at Israel’s response. He correctly sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a factor in wider regional instability.

Mr. Netanyahu’s government provoked the controversy two weeks ago when it disclosed plans for 1,600 new housing units in an ultra-orthodox neighborhood in East Jerusalem just as Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. was on a fence-mending visit and Israeli-Palestinian “proximity talks” were to begin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/opinion/27sat1.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print

[Richardo]

1. I think you'll find this is a consistent application of the NYT style book in use for decades.

Anyway, they refer to him as 'President Obama' as well. You're stretching to be offended.

[spanone]

3. i stretch every morning

[Xenotime]

6. I disagree. They messed up and are showing lack of respect.

[DainBramaged]

10. FAUX Noise refers to him as Barack Obama, the Reich wing noise machine does NOT give him the respect

of the office, it's true.....I wrote about that this week myself......Winky and the Meat Puppet won't address him as the President.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8022848

[rug]

2. You should capitalize New York Times.

[spanone]

5. why?

[rug]

8. It's the proper title.

[Cassandra]

4. Correct usage is to refer to the current President...

as President Obama in the first mention in the story and as Mr. or by last name afterwords, although the title may be used again. As long as they said President Obama at least once, early in the piece, it's ok.
I don't want us to sound like the freepers a few years ago, shrieking every time Bush was referred to as Mr. Bush.

[GoCubsGo]

11. They could have left out "Mr."

But, they didn't. THAT would have been something to get upset over.

[BunkerHill24]

7. This is probably most balanced NYT Op-Ed I've seen with regard to I/P conflict

K&R

[frazzled]

9. Chill out ... that is NYT official style

First mention, President X, subsequent mentions Mr. Here: they did it for Bush, too:

This is the vast stage on which President Bush is trying to salvage his environmental legacy.

It’s strange but true. Mr. Bush, who has been monumentally indifferent to the health of continents and the atmosphere, is going down in history as a protector of the oceans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/opinion/07wed1.html

In the body of the editorial, as you can see, "President Obama" is used at his first mention, in paragraph 4, and then Mr. Obama after. As for the headline? It's shorter. Perfectly ok by me.