The Associated Press has a “Standards Center”?

Sister Toldjah ^ | 8/19/10 | Sister Toldjah

[Nachum]

Unsurpisingly, the Associated Press has advised its staff NOT to call the Ground Zero mosque … the Ground Zero mosque (via):

Colleagues,

Here is some guidance on covering the NYC mosque story, with assists from Chad Roedemeier in the NYC bureau and Terry Hunt in Washington:

1. We should continue to avoid the phrase “ground zero mosque” or “mosque at ground zero” on all platforms. (We’ve very rarely used this wording, except in slugs, though we sometimes see other news sources using the term.) The site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque is not at ground zero, but two blocks away in a busy commercial area. We should continue to say it’s “near” ground zero, or two blocks away.

[the invisib1e hand]

Probably it has bedbugs, like the CNN building.

[SERKIT]

al-AP

[Rebelbase]

The Standards Center also sanitizes news copy to remove the (d) after politicians names in scandal stores.

[SERKIT]

Almost as nauseating as this.

[eaglesiniowa]

Colleagues = Comrades

[combat_boots]

Of course, Nachum. The Standard is Mecca Time. (That’s Greenwich Mean, you evil Western capitalists, PLUS, as in plus it has the benefit of being on ‘Allah’s hour.’)

[poindexters brother]

To be completely accurate, it really isn’t the “ground zero mosque”.

It is the “9/11 Victory Mosque”.

[whence911]

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