The mainstream media is providing a tepid response to President Donald Trump’s choice to ban the Related Press from protecting official White Home occasions.
AP has been barred from reporting on not less than two White Home occasions as a result of the wire service has mentioned they are going to be utilizing the time period “Gulf of Mexico” in reference to the Gulf of Mexico. Trump signed an government order ordering that the physique of water’s identify ought to be modified—a choice that has not been acknowledged by every other nation and was just lately mocked by the Mexican president.
President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day, as Inside Secretary Doug Burgum watches aboard Air Drive One.
On Friday, just one reporter even bothered to ask White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt concerning the AP ban. In response to a query from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Leavitt mentioned, “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the ‘Gulf of America.”
It isn’t a reality.
However neither outlet indicated they’d take any motion past their statements, like boycotting White Home occasions in solidarity with AP.
The White Home Correspondents Affiliation condemned the ban however made no assertion about actions the members would take to stress the administration to reverse its place.
Bending to Trump’s will whereas voicing help for the Related Press would appear to be in full contradiction.
In contrast, whereas Tapper criticized Trump’s choice to bar AP in a current broadcast of his CNN present, he couched it by way of asking what the Republican response could be if a Democrat did the identical factor.
“This can swing both ways,” Tapper mentioned. However Democrats haven’t gone this far in punishing media shops they’ve disagreed with and there’s little indication the occasion would ever go this far.
The mainstream media has many times demonstrated an unwillingness to problem Trump, and since he was sworn within the press has even paid him off after he threatened them. As a substitute of opposing him when he prevents their colleagues from doing their jobs and working as watchdogs of democracy, there have been toothless condemnations with none concrete follow-up—demonstrating true complicity.
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