I don’t know who started this, but I always feel frustrated when I see headline along the lines of “USA says” or “China signal”, countries are not people.

I don’t understand why don’t even the best news outlets put headlines like " Official x said this on official order on USA" Or something like that.

I really don’t understand who came up with this way of reporting where they report on officials as their country and I always thought that this is dumb.