Associated Press new 'style guide', because who needs facts, truth, science and reality from a news organisation?

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From Deadline Hollywood: "Associated Press Style Guide Updates Gender Terminology, Suggests Avoiding Biological Sex.

[Titter ye not!]

The Associated Press style guide – which sets the agenda for how most major media uses its words and phrases in reporting, thus shaping society views – has come out with new guidelines on gender.

The AP now instructs journalists to respect LGBTQ subjects’ preferred pronouns and to avoid terms like “biological sex.”
The new guide also suggested avoiding phrases like “both sexes,” indicating there are more than two that people use. Journalists should also avoid referring to a trans person as being born a boy or girl, with “sex assigned at birth” the new preferred usage."

Let the industrial scale gaslighting commence!

Annoying, because lots of organisations look to the AP style guide, Economist Style guide etc to inform their own style guides.

My company is going through a brand refresh including the writing a new style guide. Thanks for highlighting that the oAP one is not one to follow.

Sorry for typos - am writing on the phone in a moving car 😂

Fuck the AP - as the thread's title implies, news reporting requires "facts, truth, science and reality".

Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel... ;o)

😂😂😂

I bet they're in the same Stonewall-style DEI index that Bud Light and others are. Sorry can't remember the name off the top of my head, can anyone help?

Perhaps the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index?

Adding to my derail above, here's Jim Morrison with his road safety advice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_X4VTCoEo

It makes me laugh angry, that TRAs are saying that their existence is being threatened when all over the news we have politicians unable to define a woman as an adult human female.

Sex assigned at birth - FFS

I know.

Okay Mrs Miggins we’ve ‘assigned’ three as female today already, let’s just say that the next three are males okay - that seems fair. 😂

AP is US based

Thanks that sounds like the one

I may join the people who say they no longer listen to or read any news. It's just word salad propaganda.

I'm furious. I have lost all trust in mainstream media organisations. The 'legacy media' could have stood firm and been rocks in a sea of madness and misinformation but they've fucking blown it.

You're not alone.
The amount of codswallop out there is unreal. We don't just have people who write bullshit on their own web pages, but the bloody news media is telling us that up is down as well.