Interesting headline because it's totally accurate and there is nothing wrong with it but it still feels very misleading.
Does anyone know what the AP standard is for referencing the country VS the state of Georgia? Is this discouraged?
Does anyone know what the AP standard is for referencing the country VS the state of Georgia? Is this discouraged?
You know, there exists a world outside the US. And yet, when "Georgia" and "nation" is mentioned in the same sentence, you feel misled because it doesn't refer to the US state of Georgia? The problem is with you, not with the headline.
It's a headline, not a summary.
> I also read it to be referring to the state of Georgia in the the US Nation.
It's okay to misunderstand the headline – if I were a resident of the US, I would have probably interpreted "Georgia" as the US state as well. But it is not justified to blame this on the headline, or to feel "misled" by it.
Also the GDP of the state of Georgia is 30x larger than the country of Georgia and it has 300% of the population. The state is a drastically more important world player than the country (IE it would be drastically bigger news if this was true of the state than the country). There is nothing US centric about this.