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The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 39 points 17 hours ago

Bunch of fucking snowflakes in the White House.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

Totally legal, totally cool

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely.

The AP, one of the world’s biggest news outlets, was singled out by the White House earlier this week over three words: “Gulf of Mexico.”

President Donald Trump said last month that the US government would rename the body of water the “Gulf of America.” The change has taken effect at government agencies. But other countries do not recognize the new name, and the AP has customers around the world, so it still refers to the Gulf of Mexico while also acknowledging Trump’s decree.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Can't have factual reporting happening, now can we? That would be silly, giving credibility to that corporate commie democrat fake news like that. /s

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

It was bound to happen at some point. Sad but inevitable.