The Lost Art of Precision

AP Style Rules I Learned in 1995 That No One Follows Anymore

What AI thinks my 1995 life looked like at the Boston Globe. Not accurate (typewriters were gone by then and I would have had 25 cups of coffee) but does it matter anymore?

Back in 1995 when I was a new staff writer at the Boston Globe and fresh out of Columbia J-School, the AP Stylebook was gospel. We carried it like armor, each rule a small blade sharp…