Of course, I restrained myself, the press preferring high seriousness.
The Times has a venerable tradition of precision and rigor; why is it steering in the direction of the British press, preferring invective and anecdote to serious news?
Mr Xi enjoys the additional distinction, which China's official press prefers not to mention, of being the son of a late revolutionary leader, Xi Zhongxun.
Mr. Shahzad prided himself on staying out of the mainstream press, preferring, he wrote in a preface to his recently published book, "Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban," to challenge the "conventional wisdom".
However, Johnston Press prefers to focus on revenues on an adjusted basis, stripping out factors including revenue from five titles that moved from daily to weekly last year to make for a fairer year-on-year comparison.
But that system began falling apart in the mid-1990's, as President Carlos Salinas began to cut back on government spending on the press, preferring more modern systems of spin.
Although Norton's guidelines remain intact today, the "independent" press prefers a set menu of "free market" journalism: personality politics and its skulduggery, shopping, private education, the vagaries of real estate and war patriotism.
Mattis avoids talking to the press, preferring to remain behind the scenes, but, by following his team on two weeklong trips to Europe this spring, I was able to talk with him several times.
She is almost unique in the world of modern celebrity in that, apart from one interview (in which she famously admitted to having been drunk for a decade), she never gives even the briefest of quotes to the press, preferring to maintain the old-fashioned silence of the traditional beauty.
