> the "house style" actually extends to some poor sod having to go through texts written by non-NZ journalists and changjng plural to singular?
Yep.
> Doesnt occur to them this is a waste of time and money?
Haven't you heard? NZ is the India of sub-editing these days. It's where you outsource the tedious subbing jobs.
> Does your informant know if TSC believe that their "style" is superior to that of e.g. the London Times? Or more Kiwi? Or what?
No, definitely not "more Kiwi". I get the impression they really don't care/think about that. As to superiority, maybe they do. The old printed style guide (The Word, which I thought was quite good) was a hodge-podge of norms from The Times and the Chicago Style Manual.
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