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.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Just because official X said that, does not mean that the whole country is ok with him.

    Im pretty sure everybody knows that. It probably doesn’t need to be spelled out every single time someone makes am announcement.

    “Company X is excited for release of new product”

    Vs.

    “This Company X PR rep says they are excited for release of new product, although the 10,000 other employees at Company X have not yet made official statements on their opinions of new product.”