The AP establishes style guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States, to revert to the name Mount McKinley.
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This is a seriously stupid issue.
Why can't we deal with this like twitters name change where everyone basically ignores it and just keeps calling it the same name as before?
That's my plan. Unless I wish to mock it with a silly voice.
Because places like Google Maps have to deal with Trump's, in my opinion, NAZI fueled legal and financial revenge pursuits.
Who cares? Just because multi-trillion dollar corporation Google has to deal with it doesn't mean we have to play along.
The politicians and corporations can do whatever bullshit they do, but average people can also choose to ignore that crap.
At least when it comes to changing well established names. There's other stuff that has real world consequences and that sucks, but we can at least hold the line in this case.
Denali.
Gulf of Mexico.
From now until the end of time.
Like the bean, sears tower, and Comiskey Park
Does anyone other than Trump want these names changed? Alaska spent decades trying to get the name changed to Denali.
Elections have consequences, I'm not really getting that folks are digesting the enormity and minutia of everything that is going to change for the worse, to the detriment of all humanity, and the steps Trumps MAGAts are taking to make sure it can't be restored for generations
Yeah, it's only just now dawning on a lot of Americans how much of an impact their choices have, and how the foundations of their government have always been built on a general consensus to not rock the boat and just carry forward with traditions and whatnot.
That's the case with every government, really - governments are just a bunch of humans agreeing to do things a certain way and if enough of them decide to stop doing it that way and do it a different way instead then that'll just happen. Doesn't matter what's written on bits of paper, what matters is how everyone agrees to behave. Other parts of the world have seen their governments change drastically in living memory, or have a long history of it. Americans apparently didn't realize that it could happen to them too.
This is a huge shakeup of their complacency. Hopefully it'll result in better long-term choices in the end, we'll see I guess.
Trump doesn't want the names changed. His puppetmasters want something that will stay in the headlines for as long as possible.
Well the Donvict can fuck all the way off up his own ass. It's the Gulf of Mexico, and Denali.
Complicit press bends knee.
Did you read the article? They had sound reasoning for their choices here.
Yes. I do not consider their reasoning sound.
Well, shows where AP lies.
Disappointed to say the least…
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I don't know. I'd say that it's probably pretty reasonable, if you figure what their job is -- producing understandable material.
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In terms of authority, Denali is in the US. The federal government did the renaming from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali" in 2015. I don't think that generally there was dispute that the federal government was the authority on the name of the thing then.
In terms of familiarity, Mount McKinley's been known as "Mount McKinley" for quite a while; most Americans are going to know what the thing is. I hadn't paid attention to the spat over it, and when I first heard "Denali", thought that it was a different mountain.
So (1) the administration probably legitimately is the globally-authoritative source on the name, and (2) calling it "Mount McKinley" won't produce confusion, even with people who would rather that it be called "Denali".
On the other hand, the Gulf of Mexico is a major international geographical feature frequently referred to abroad. Very little of it is within US borders. Some countries are surrounded by it, and the term is frequently used abroad -- as the AP mentions. It's not very likely that any other countries are going to change their day-to-day use over it, whatever Trump says. All Americans know it as the Gulf of Mexico, and I doubt that most are going to change the term they use. So continuing to call it the "Gulf of Mexico" is probably the most-understandable approach; indicating parenthetically that it's been designated the "Gulf of America" indicates that the official term is this, though they aren't using it.
Like, the AP's job isn't "participate in a culture war on one side or another", but "get copy out that people can understand".
But not surprised.
I think their take is pretty pragmatic. It makes sense since the AP is an American news outlet.
Lol, the most leftist news outlet. Be neutral as possible.
Law is law, until challenged by a court.
That doesn't sound very left, infact that isn't left at all.
AP is most leftist I don’t think so