[The] Associated Press is THEE well-respected news media (above all of news media) and is the go-to source for serious news and information the world over. For us journalism majors, The Associated Press Manual is the “bible” of journalism whereby rules [of journalism] are taught, tested, learned and expected to be adhered by—even down to the difference in writing about a blond (man) or a blonde (woman).
You’d better get it right, in journalism school you are tested on dropping two periods between (and after) a.m. and p.m. and the fact that ‘president’ is not with a capital ‘P.’
There are sooooo many little tedious details in journalism that as a journalism student, when you are online and watch people refer to online bloggers [or online ‘writers’] refer to themselves at “journalists;” thanks to the Associated Press (and its many tedious rules of journalism); by the time a journalism student reads one paragraph-in mind, it’s like: “honey, have several seats. I know ‘journalist’ is a quick and easy one-word go-to that makes you seem important and all, but I promise you, anybody who really is a journalist can tell you’re lying, or did a terrible job in journalism school, or that you simply refuse to let go of the heartbreaking lesson all journalism students learn from the very first day of school: “Journalism is not necessarily about writing or being writer.”
All that being the case, and rules set forth by the Associated Press, you’d think they’d never make a ‘media’ mistake right?
Welp. Having publicly made this faux pas, Associated Press would probably defend themselves by saying: “‘media/news media is one thing and popular culture-although is news media-is its own thing”—that’d be a good defense for their Twitter faux pas.
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Spitfire .
Media Maestro .
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