
Article in Committee to Project Journalists by Staff, 2/14/25
Headline: “CPJ denounces Trump administration’s actions against AP, other retaliation against media”
“The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the White House decision to block The Associated Press (AP) from covering official events after AP’s decision to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its internationally known name, calling the action the latest in an alarming pattern of retaliation against a free press in the first weeks of Donald Trump’s administration.
“The White House barred an AP reporter from covering two official events at the White House following AP’s issuing of widely used style guidelines saying that Trump’s order changing the name to Gulf of America only carried authority in the U.S. and that as a global news agency it would continue to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its 400-year-old name “while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.”
https://cpj.org/2025/02/cpj-denounces-trump-administrations-actions-against-ap-other-retaliation-against-media/
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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 2/13/25
Headline: “Opinion | From absurd to disturbing as Trump White House bans AP from important media events”
Subhead: “Reporters are barred from Oval Office news events after The Associated Press refuses to change its style to Gulf of America.”
“It was a story that started off completely laughable and so absurd that no one actually took it seriously. But it has quickly gone from ridiculous to alarming. Very alarming.
“President Donald Trump had this goofy idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Why? Because it’s Trump and he does goofy stuff like that. He signed an executive order announcing the change.
“Recognizing just how ludicrous this all was, and wanting to continue calling things by their official, worldwide-recognized name, The Associated Press announced it would continue to call the body of water the Gulf of Mexico. . . ”
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/from-absurd-to-disturbing-as-trump-white-house-bans-ap-from-important-media-events/