AP Editor Speaks Out About Battle With Trump White House: It's Not About 'Gulf of America,'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 2nd, 2025, 10:58 am


Julie Pace, the executive editor for the Associated Press, told ABC News on Sunday morning that her organization will not capitulate in order to be allowed back into the White House to cover President Donald Trump. Pace said the wire service is digging in for a free speech battle it hopes to win on behalf of news organizations and individual citizens she said do not want their language policed by government.

The AP has spent several weeks barred from entering the Oval Office and traveling with Trump over its refusal to follow Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The White House has positioned the AP as a fringe outlet that is lying to readers. The AP has said that referring to the body of water is at odds with its style guide, which will not be updated to placate the White House. On Sunday’s edition of This Week, Pace told anchor George Stephanopoulos the AP is prepared to dig in for the long haul.

“Julie, you’re the executive editor of the Associated Press,” Stephanopoulos said. “The Associated Press has now been blocked from basically from covering the White House because you refused to call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. Where do things stand right now? How is it affecting your coverage?” Pace replied:

So I think the first thing I would say is the Associated Press is 179 years old. We’re a global, independent, nonpartisan news organization that’s had a commitment to covering the white House since our founding. And, you know, really you mentioned this is about Gulf of America, Gulf of Mexico, you know, yes, it’s about that, but it’s also about something so much bigger. You know, this is about freedom of speech. And that is a principle, a right that Americans across the political spectrum believe in deeply.

This is about whether the government can control the language that we use, that ordinary people can use. And it’s about whether the government can retaliate against you if you don’t use the language that they prefer. So we are standing up for that, right? Not just for the AP, but for all independent news organizations and for the public, because we believe, again, that this is a principle of freedom of speech.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ap-editor-speaks-out-about-battle-with-trump-white-house-its-not-about-gulf-of-america-its-about-something-so-much-bigger/

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Full headline: AP Editor Speaks Out About Battle With Trump White House: It’s Not About ‘Gulf of America,’ It’s About ‘Something So Much Bigger’

[Lovie777]

1. Duh..............

[Joinfortmill]

2. Good. Subscribe.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Yes, I was about to post that they accept donations too. . . . nt

[BaronChocula]

3. FINALLY!

Some MSM backbone. Hopefully others will follow. This is just days/weeks after MSNBC capitulated to the white nationalist bent of the rapist in the Oval by removing a swath of on-air personnel of color from their desks. That was a lesson in how NOT to operate as a free press.

[GiqueCee]

10. Bezos didn't capitulate...

... he flat out said that the WAPO editorial page would now, and forever after, reflect only his Libertarian beliefs.

I'm reminded of a good joke: A little boy tells his mother, "When I grow up, I'm gonna be a Libertarian!"
His mother replied, "Well, which is it going to be? You can't do both!"

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Be glad you're not traveling with him.

When he is shot down you will be spared.

[dchill]

14. What - is Elon having rockets installed on his plane?

(If he hasn't already.)

[EarnestPutz]

5. Trumps modus, in business and in politics, revolves around creating distractions and confusion among the opposition.

[twodogsbarking]

6. You can hear the evil, and you can see the evil, but you cannot speak of the evil.

That is evil.

[gordianot]

7. How would Trump respond if news media ignored him.

Ignoring him is cutting off oxygen to his Narcissism.

[homegirl]

11. That is exactly

what the media should have done four years ago. Reports on Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk and all top GOP/MAGA voices should be limited to:

On TV: Black& White text, NO IMAGES.
Same for online sites
Radio: Concise brief reports

Upcoming state of the Union commentary should be limited to making a transcript available.

Donald Trump is severely mentally and emotionally unbalanced and should be responded to accordingly!

PLUS: He is an operative of the Russian Federation!

THE MEDIA SHOULD BAND TOGETHER AND BOYCOTT ALL OF TRUMP'S AND HIS PRESS SECRETARY'S EVENTS!

Donald thrives on media attention and will wither away without it!!!

[Cirsium]

15. Yep

What other losing presidential candidate got front page media coverage every day for the next 4 years?

[groundloop]

19. Should have been ignoring him for a hell of a lot longer than 4 years.....

When he started that racist birther bullshit with President Obama he should have been totally ignored. That was a ploy to get his ugly face in the news cycle, and it worked much too well.

[iluvtennis]

9. KnR. Bravo Julie Pace and the Associated Press. n/t

[Clouds Passing]

12. Says Julie after ap calls state after state in rapid fire for the dump.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Looks like they have now spun their elections group and gave them a VP

https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/david-scott-to-lead-new-ap-elections-unit/

[Buddyzbuddy]

13. Bravo

[Figarosmom]

17. I think most thinking

People already know that. It's about bending the will of the reporter.

[Fil1957]

18. Good on Them!

[AmericaUnderSiege]

20. Correction: It's not about the Gulf of Mexico.

The media really needs to stop tripping on its own dick. The enemy's tactics are transparent, how they get us to carry water for them by pretending the memes they create are a real topic.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Could be why they put the term in quotes

rather than legitimize it without them.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

22. The destructive meme is still perpetuated, in quotes or not.

Wall off the meme and address its goal rather than its specifics. Then it's easy work.

If someone starts a conspiracy theory that a Senator boinked a walrus at a zoo, you do NOT say: "Senator Blank did not boink a walrus at the zoo! This walrus-boinking nonsense needs to stop immediately! No walruses have been boinked!"

The whole point is to get you to say a certain phrase, so don't say it. Some racist nutbars are using false terminology for the Gulf of Mexico. That's all that's happening.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. True story but on a news radio report that I heard this morning

there was an expert commenting on one of the national stories, who reiterated the impact of repeating something enough times, even if untrue, and how it eventually gets accepted anyway.

IMHO, it's a tactic and technique that Democrats need to start using more (and this can go beyond just "talking points" ).

[AmericaUnderSiege]

24. I remember "Freedom Fries."

Republicans are so embarrassing to be around, even as opponents.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Yup

I expect to see more nonsense like that soon since we are throwing our allies under the bus.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. And right on time, here we go!

Texas Republican focuses on rebrand of ‘New York strip’ steak to ‘Texas strip’ amid outbreak

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Mon 3 Mar 2025 06.00 EST


While Texas grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades, its Republican lieutenant governor has moved for the state’s restaurants and groceries to change the name of the “New York strip” steak cut to the “Texas strip” in what he evidently hopes is a blow to liberals.

Dan Patrick announced on Friday on social media that he intended to go to Texas’s senate and work with lawmakers to pass a resolution favoring the switch – which would not carry the force of law but nonetheless would amount to a substantial statement of legislative support.

Patrick’s announcement made it a point to allude to the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump ordered to be renamed to the Gulf of America in an executive order early in his second US presidency.

And, perhaps anticipating reproval for his choice to focus at least some of his attention on renaming meat after a child in his state became the first person in the US to die from measles in a decade, Patrick’s statement said: “In a world filled with serious issues that address every day at the Texas capitol, this simple resolution will help better market Texas beef.”

(snip)

There is no "lowest depth" that they won't attempt to plumb.

Wee!