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Article: The new Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: out with victrola and malarkey, in with bird flu and hang-up.(Book review)
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- The Newsletter on Newsletters
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- September 10, 2008
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Associated Press 2008 Styelbook and Briefing on Media Law, edited by Darrell Christian, Sally Jacobsen and David Minthorn, 435 pp., comb-bound, $18.95, The Associated Press, 450 West 33rd St., New York, NY 10001, 212-621-1500, www.apbookstore.com (where one may also subscribe to AP Stylebook Online).
Writing in Copyediting news letter, Norm Goldstein, editor emeritus of The Associated Press Stylebook, says of the 2008 edition: "The editorial brooms at The Associated Press Stylebook have swept through it and made a number of changes since the 2007 print edition--more than 200 ..."
Many of the new entries reflect the world's current woes: bird flu, ...