I doubt my contribution to this thread is welcome, so before I move along let me say this: Sometimes a less formal title is actually a higher form of respect.

President Harry (the buck stops here) Truman would be called Truman in my household, there being at the time just one Truman in the world. He was respected, period, despite being an American. The same may be said of Churchill, the Briton. (I recently named a toad who comes around Winston, out of respect for Churchill. I would not name any living thing I liked 'Harper'.)

As for the media--which is a plural form here being treated as a singular--, it can't find its arse with two hands, and the day I saw polop-onies in a major newspaper I lost all respect for newspapers and what's left of the printed word.

Neat thread, CS.