I don¹t know AP structure. It is not a consensus body like ASTM or ISO and is not a de facto regulatory body like NIH or a utilities commission. It¹s more like EPRI or ATA and exists to serve the will of its member organizations such as the NY TImes.
The AP style guide is provided to help AP contributors share news with each other, swapping stories so that they don¹t need to be re-edited by each periodical that picks them up. A periodical follows AP style by default partly because they want their stories to be reproduced and welcome in other periodicals. So AP style becomes, by default, the industry standard. Apart from this, there is nothing to prevent an individual periodical from setting its own style in particular matters. Heck, it could even do something bone-headed like put periods after symbols. I think that¹s what we are faced with. From: Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:55:23 -0400 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:41148] Re: Associated Press Style Guide is working against us. On Jun 16 , at 11:57 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > Can you find an address of someone at AP to write to to get this changed? > > Pierre > By Googling "AP address" I found this: > http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html It was the first reference Google listed. I'm planning on using the email address provided there ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to question why the AP Stylebook appears to require most metric references to be converted to Olde English units. Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ==========================
