10-03-2024, 09:50 AM
(08-03-2024, 02:56 PM)i.h Wrote: The BBC aren't the only ones to do it - eg Reuters' stories on the recent budget mention "the British finance minister" and "the opposition Labour party".
That, however, is a stylistic thing as Reuters are serving newsrooms around the world with the same wire drops so journalists working in, say, Canada wouldn’t be particularly well served if the copy only used British-specific terms.
Then you have POLITICO which - because of its roots in Washington - insists on using American spelling and terminology for all its content, including its UK-facing daily newsletters like Playbook even though the size of the audience reading them outside Britain must be tiny.