Posted on 02/14/2025 11:42:57 AM PST by vespa300
The Trump administration has indefinitely banned the Associated Press from the White House over the wire service's refusal to change AP style from the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America.'
Deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich said on Friday the AP's decision 'is not just divisive, but it also exposes the Associated Press’ commitment to misinformation.'
Budowich wrote: 'While their right to irresponsible and dishonest reporting is protected by the First Amendment, it does not ensure their privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One.'
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I can dig it.
The number of uses I have for AP range from 0 to none at all.
That snarky gal from CNN should be next. This isn’t a game.
Agitation and Propaganda’s style book was a handbook for leftist propaganda.
They are a critical element of the enemy media.
Very nice!
TRO coming in HOT from some circus court judge in BFE
And none of the journalists stood up for the New York Post when they were deplatformed from Twitter in October of 2020 for the article discussing Hunter Biden’s laptop (which turned out to be true of course)
I don’t mind dead-naming. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. Always will be.
I can’t seem to find that on the map.
Stick all the alphabet channels in the BACK ROW
The name change seems rather whimsical in the first place.
What material purpose is served by the change?
I love that Trump is tightening the border up, and has DOGE slicing the waste away from federal spending, just those two efforts alone have saved America as we know it, but that doesn’t mean I agree with all changes being done.
I had to look that up:
gerund or present participle: deadnaming
call (a transgender person) by their birth name when they have changed their name as part of their gender transition.
“he was addressed with the wrong pronouns and deadnamed”
AP = Abhorrent Presstitutes
I do mot see this as a hill to die on. I understand the theory, but is it even our call? Did we name it thr first time?
Ditto
Banning the AP from the White House is a good move, scares the others. And when some hand-picked judge tries to tell Trump ha can’t do that, he should say, “This is the White House. The judiciary has no say on what goes on here.”
Maybe the purpose was to trigger people like the AP and provide a causus belli for banning them from the White House press corps when they predictably reacted. :-)
GoOgle now has Gulf of America. WINNING! The Bee says he’s going to rename the Atlantic “America’s Ocean” and the Pacific “America’s Other Ocean.” :-)
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