WSJ Defends Its Honorifics

The Wall Street Journal will be as polite as it wants to the athletes it covers, thank you very much. The paper took some gentle ribbing earlier this week from sports commentator Frank Deford over the use of honorifics in its new “Greater New York” section’s sports coverage.

Speaking on NPR, Deford said, “If you’re going to write about games, you don’t call players ‘Mr.’ or ‘Ms.’ In sports sections or sports TV or sports internet the world over, nobody not even fancy-pants team owners get to be a Mr.

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