Because then some enterprising young programmer could offer a babblefish-like online translator between "AP-speak" and what actually happened.
that would be very interesting.
right now you have to BUY the owellian AP Writer’s Guide.
Imagin if bablefish did a AP translator!!!
Reminds me an OMNI magazine short story about an inventor who creats a universal translator box that even translates leagalese. It could translate treaties. It could be revearsed to create contracts with all the complex legal terms. The governments and lawyers pay the inventor a fortune to retire in a lifestyle of dreams of avarace.