Fox News and Newsmax, alongside numerous other media organizations, have collectively denounced the Trump administration's choice to bar the Associated Press from official events after its refusal to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Julie Pace, AP's executive editor, engaged with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to negotiate an end to the ban, which has effectively blacklisted AP from critical presidential coverage. The WHCA's confidential letter urged for AP's reinstatement and emphasized the constitutional violations in attempting to control editorial decisions of news organizations.
The First Amendment prohibits the government from asserting control over how news organizations make editorial decisions. Any attempt to punish journalists for those decisions is a serious breach of this Constitutional protection.
The decision to exclude The Associated Press from covering the president aboard Air Force One and in the Oval Office is an escalation of a dispute that does not serve the presidency or the public.
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