Thanks again, AP

Reuters sports content is such a waste of time. Although I guess it beats nothing.

 

Whoever is programming the robots writing the AP college basketball briefs, please note that it is the SouthwestERN Athletic Conference.
The Southwest Athletic Conference, to my knowledge, was never a thing and the Southwest Conference ceased to exist in 1995 and never included any of the teams you seem to think currently play in it.

 

Maybe the robots were programmed by SWAC SIDs.

 

Missed this last week: AP has given up on people getting "flier" right. The new stylebook says use FLYER for handbills, people on airplanes ... just about everything.

Also, as you'll notice below, they've changed the rules on "they" in the stylebook. As someone who's corrected these for years, all I can say is the terrorists have won.

Link: AP Definitive Source | Making a case for a singular ‘they’

 

Would this be to save a reporter's ass in a "gender bending" situation perhaps?

 

Have they changed the rules on numbers as well?
I noticed a lot of instances in the college basketball stories this weekend where they used a numeral when it should have been spelled out. Too many for it to be a coincidence or sloppiness.

 

I don't know if they have, but it drives me insane.

 

Ding, ding!

 

Did anyone else notice this missive on the AP wire from a few weeks ago?
How did the coverage vary from state to state, and are they right? All we ever got was briefs on each game.

 

I don't recall AP ever covering anything but championship games for high school. But I cover college 90 percent of the time, so I'm not as clued in on what they're doing with preps.

 

Weird. Every paper I have ever been at used at least the small brief, if the school was just outside our coverage area we used the full game story...but usually never a photo.

 

Yeah, we've always run the high school championship stories. I think that was just AP's way of cutting stuff they didn't want to do with less staff.