{"id":179,"date":"2017-04-06T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-04-06T19:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:12:57","slug":"john-gruber-is-outraged-at-the-ny-times-use-of-winter-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yourmacexpert.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/john-gruber-is-outraged-at-the-ny-times-use-of-winter-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gruber is outraged at the NY Times use of “Winter White House.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a big fan of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball for years. He usually writes about tech and related issues, but lately his writing has become increasing political. Like today’s bit complaining about how the New York times referred President Trump’s Florida resort as the “the so-called Winter White House.\u201d\u00a0Mr. Gruber wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Describing Mar-a-Lago as \u201cthe so-called Winter White House\u201d is pernicious at best, and I would argue it\u2019s downright outrageous. No news organization, let alone one as prestigious in stature and as fastidious about style and usage as The New York Times, should ever<\/em> describe Mar-a-Lago as \u201cthe Winter White House\u201d. Prefacing it by \u201cso-called\u201d doesn\u2019t make it right. So-called by whom? By Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His outrage is greatly misplaced. When Kennedy was president, the Times regularly referred to his Palm Beach home as the\u00a0Winter White House.<\/em><\/p>\n

They described President Nixon’s San Clemente home as the Western White House\u00a0and later used those same words to describe President Reagan’s Santa Barbara ranch.<\/p>\n

Consider these Google search results, all restricted to show only results from nytimes.com:<\/p>\n