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WHCA condemns ‘unacceptable’ escalation as White House bars AP from press conference
The Hill ^

Posted on 02/14/2025 6:05:27 AM PST by TigerClaws

The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) condemned the Trump administration for a second time on Thursday following the Associated Press’ expulsion from the president’s reporter pool due to an editorial decision.

“The White House’s decision to bar Associated Press reporters from today’s press conference with President Trump and Prime Minister Modi is outrageous and a deeply disappointing escalation of an already unacceptable situation,” Eugene Daniels, the association’s president, wrote in a statement.

“Let me be clear: the White House is seeking to curtail the press freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, and has admitted publicly they are restricting access to events to punish a news outlet for not advancing the government’s preferred language.”

The Associated Press said they were warned about the removal on Tuesday by a White House official who said the administration took issue with the publication’s decision to use the term Gulf of Mexico instead of the Gulf of America following President Trump’s recent executive order issuing a name change.

“Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing,” Executive Editor Julie Pace said following the incident.

“It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.”

The outlet, which establishes editorial standards for journalism and serves as a wire for millions of news sites worldwide, said Trump’s order only carries authority within the United States. Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognize the name change.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrathypocrisy
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Taxpayer funded propaganda to manipulate U.S. public opinion. AP, Reuters, NYT, Politico = all funded by looted tax money. Trump needs to sue to clawback the cash.
1 posted on 02/14/2025 6:05:27 AM PST by TigerClaws
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I think some D.C. Judge will get Reuters back into the Press Briefings, but Karoline will just ignore their questions.

The other major move, I think, was when Security Clearances were removed from known leakers of Classified info (to the press), and more Security Clearance cancellations will be coming, soon, I hope.

2 posted on 02/14/2025 6:08:54 AM PST by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: TigerClaws

These fools lack a fundamental understanding of Freedom of the Press.


3 posted on 02/14/2025 6:09:06 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: TigerClaws
The outlet, which establishes editorial standards for journalism...

I may see the problem.

4 posted on 02/14/2025 6:10:53 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: TigerClaws

Where crying asian woman?


5 posted on 02/14/2025 6:13:42 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: TigerClaws

Any of these news organizations which have received money from USAID should be banned for the duration of Trump’s Presidency.


6 posted on 02/14/2025 6:14:39 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: TigerClaws

1. The better position would have been for the WH to just start ignoring any AP representative.

2. The AP does not have to be present at the WH briefing to report the news, since the AP also uses other news sources, with attribution, for its reports.


7 posted on 02/14/2025 6:14:41 AM PST by Wuli
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“but Karoline will just ignore their questions.”

Have you been looking at these orders? The judge will order where the reporter must sit and how many questions he/she must be allowed.


8 posted on 02/14/2025 6:15:08 AM PST by Yogafist
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If they are required to allow every journalist into the room then........they are gonna need a bigger room.


9 posted on 02/14/2025 6:15:30 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: TigerClaws

😭😭😭😭😭


10 posted on 02/14/2025 6:15:38 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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no whats unacceptable YOU


11 posted on 02/14/2025 6:15:55 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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"not advancing the government’s preferred language"

No, it's more like government subversion and rudeness by shouting loaded questions with commentary when not given permission to speak as a guest in another's office.

12 posted on 02/14/2025 6:18:00 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: TigerClaws

That WICCA (or whatever the hell the acronym is) is upset, is a good thing I should think.


13 posted on 02/14/2025 6:18:26 AM PST by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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aaaaaSHADDAP daniels!

If you didn’t see this coming, then you are more stupid than we thought.

The corporate media are enemies of the people.


14 posted on 02/14/2025 6:19:15 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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15 posted on 02/14/2025 6:19:28 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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“The outlet, which establishes editorial standards for journalism” …

There’s your problem.


16 posted on 02/14/2025 6:19:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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The AP is not a news organization and therefore does not have 1st Amendment rights.


17 posted on 02/14/2025 6:21:02 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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AP Headline: Trump issues order to call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico. The AP will not call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, to spite Trump’s executive order. In other news, the artist formally known as Prince, is still dead.


18 posted on 02/14/2025 6:21:04 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: TigerClaws

punish AP for its independent journalism 😂🤔


19 posted on 02/14/2025 6:22:59 AM PST by OldHarbor
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To: ClearCase_guy

Trump can fundamentally deny whomever he wants to. Freedom of the press goes both ways.


20 posted on 02/14/2025 6:25:11 AM PST by spincaster (i)
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