[tomder55]

Of course it does . It is enshrined in the 1st amendment.

Does that mean that certain news organizations should have privileged or even equal access to the White House ?

The issue came to a head this week when AP was denied access to Air Force One and the White House restricting APs access for press briefings

As you know ;Trump in typical Trump fanfare signed an EO while flying to the Super Bowl to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America . To me this is silly ;but I thought the renaming frenzy of the last administration was silly also.

If you go on Google you see they have changed it .

AP decided to keep with the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time they said they would agree to change the name of the mountain in Alaska that was once Mt McKinley ;changed to Denali ;and ordered by Trump back to McKinley. They say that the mountain is fully in US territory so Trump has the power. But the gulf has close to equal coastlines in Mexico and the US ;and is in International territorial waters so evidently Trump hasn't the right. ???
The AP establishes style guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley | AP News

Like I said I find the whole issue silly.

But there is more to the story than renaming geography.
Associated Press and the White House remain in standoff over access - The Washington Post

The REAL beef that Trump and conservatives have had with AP is their biased reporting. They are the go to news agency when papers are looking for news feed .

But even worse (I did not know this) is that they publish a tutorial for journalists instructing them on the proper use of words to slant their stories.

It is call the AP Stylebook
Associated Press Stylebook


This is what they learn

AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa," the outlet said in response to the death of George Floyd.
"The lowercase black is a color, not a person. AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic, and cultural senses."

In 2023, the AP asked journalists to put the words "woke" and "anti-abortion" in quotation marks due to the words "derogatory" use by conservatives.
"A slang term that originally described enlightenment or awakening about issues of racial and other forms of social justice," read an explanation of the word in an AP Stylebook post on Twitter.
"Some people and groups, especially conservatives, now use it in a derogatory sense implying what they see as overreactions. Avoid using the term other than in direct quotations."

The AP Is A Mouthpiece For The Progressive Movement | OutKick

Other word play included calling transformer mutilation surgery "gender affirming care " ..... instead of calling them "illegal immigrants " call their act "illegal immigration " so as not to demonize them. Calling a riot "unrest"



As for the whole gulf controversy ;I have a couple of solutions .

1 call the whole body of water the 'Gulf of Native America' (watch heads explode )
2. Call the body of water the' Sea of America' and carve out the water from Matamoros to the Yucatan the 'Gulf of Mexico '

Silly

[tomder55]