Comments on: AP tries for clever, but comes up with stupid

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:42:24 +0000

The modern media is a bunch of truffle hunting mutts.

Bookworm — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:52:34 +0000

Yeah, Y, that’s how I read it. It wasn’t denigrating Prada.

Ymarsakar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:15:56 +0000

It makes the pope smaller than Prada, something that the devil wears.

Don Quixote — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:07:46 +0000

I read it the opposite way, as contrasting the pope to the devil. It does not make the pope look subordinate to or in league with the devil at all.

ProtestShooter — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:22:07 +0000

“pope: Head of the Roman Catholic Church. Capitalize only when used as a formal title before a name.”

Which strikes me as odd but apparently it’s not just AP.

Tiresias — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:04:38 +0000

Pope should be capitalized.

AP does have a stylebook - probably they still do - but obviously no one reads it.