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Out with the oldspeak. In with President Trump’s newspeak — or else.
On Tuesday afternoon the White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from attending an Oval Office Q&A with Trump and Elon Musk because the newswire hasn’t changed its stylebook entry for Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”
The restriction “plainly violates the First Amendment,” AP executive editor Julie Pace said, signaling a likely legal challenge.
Several press freedom groups agreed with her assessment.
“Punishing journalists for not adopting state-mandated terminology is an alarming attack on
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