I think the media is slow to catch up on this stuff, yeah.
The AP's article[1] on the Türkiye rename was datelined from "ANKARA, Turkey (AP)" :)
I don't know whether the delay is necessarily a matter of political preference or just general slowness in English-language media. The press does a good job of changing the names of sports arenas whenever the advertiser sponsorship causes a rename. This kind of inside-baseball use-of-names media stuff is something I used to see on Jim Romenesko's blog 20 years ago and it doesn't really have a good home now.
It can't be all politics; although the US government still prefers "Rangoon" and "Burma", most of the press writes "Yangon" and "Myanmar".
The AP's article[1] on the Türkiye rename was datelined from "ANKARA, Turkey (AP)" :)
I don't know whether the delay is necessarily a matter of political preference or just general slowness in English-language media. The press does a good job of changing the names of sports arenas whenever the advertiser sponsorship causes a rename. This kind of inside-baseball use-of-names media stuff is something I used to see on Jim Romenesko's blog 20 years ago and it doesn't really have a good home now.
It can't be all politics; although the US government still prefers "Rangoon" and "Burma", most of the press writes "Yangon" and "Myanmar".