AP Style

As I was writing my stories today, I realized that there is not as much emphasis on AP style as I once thought, especially for radio writing. My stories are written to be heard and listeners really won't know the difference, therefore my supervisor reads and edits for sound and not sight. I wrote a story not to long ago about a gun and in my story I wrote out 22 caliber instead of .22, since that's how I was going to read it for the news. There are some things like referring to a person by last name only after the first reference that still matter, but other style rules seem unimportant. If I were writing for print, the style rules would apply a lot more, but for broadcast purposes I can get away with a lot of style errors.