Because of language regulation to Gulf of Mexico: White House is denied AP reporters access






In connection with the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico into “Golf of America” ​​by US President Donald Trump, a reporter from the Associated Press (AP) news agency has been denied access to reporting from the White House. The agency had been informed by the employees of the White House that access to a event there was refused to access it, should it not adapt its “editorial standards to the regulation of the Golf of Mexico into Golf of America issued by President Donald Trump “, AP editor-in-chief Julie Pace said on Tuesday (local time).

Her reporter was then “prevented” in the afternoon to take part in the signing of Trump’s decree in the Oval Office, Pace said.

To restrict the agency access to the White House due to the content of the AP language regulation, “not only disabled the public’s access to independent messages, but also clearly violates the first constitutional addition,” criticized Pace. She described it as “alarming” that the Trump government AP for “its independent journalism” punishes.

AP is the largest news agency in the USA. Your linguistic set of rules has been part of the standard reading for news editors and company offices for years.

In a stylistic note, AP had explained last month that Trump’s decree “only has justification within the United States”. As a global news agency that spreads news around the world, AP “must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable for all target groups,” it said.

Trump had signed a decree immediately after taking office, which, among other things, provided for the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and the Denali mountain in Mount McKinley. With the name change of Denali, Trump reversed the decision of former US President Barack Obama from 2015 to give the highest mountain of North America the name that Alaska’s indigenous people have been using for centuries.

Trump called the Golf an “indelible part of America”, especially because of its importance as a popular tourist destination.

Trump had harvested Sarcasm from Mexico for his decision. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested that the United States could be renamed “Mexican America” ​​and referred to a card from the time before the confiscation of a third of Mexico by the United States in 1848.

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