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New York (AP) – The White House on Wednesday said that news agencies refusing to use the new name of President Donald Trump to the Gulf of Mexico were “lies” and insisted that it will continue Bar Associated Press Journalists From the Presidential events.
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Trump has ordered that the International Water System, the border of Mexico, the United States and other countries, is called the US Gulf. In its influential style of style, the AP claimed that Mexico continued to use the Gulf, while referring to Trump’s decision, ensuring that the names of geographical features are identified around the world.
The White House’s best effort to control the language used by independent media – and its accompanying sentences – often indicate a sharp increase in bad transactions with Trump’s news agencies.
At a regular conference on Wednesday, White House newspaper secretary Caroline Lewid said: “The water body on Louisiana beach is called the United States Gulf, and I don’t know why news agencies do not like it. ”
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In fact, the body is somewhat in the United States and has been called the Gulf of Mexico for hundreds of years.
On Tuesday, AB reporters were blocked from attending events in the Oval Office and White House diplomatic reception room. When an AP reporter in the White House convention on Wednesday for Levit’s comments, they were returned to the Oval office at an event at an event.
Julie Base, senior vice president and executive editor of the AP, objected to these measures on Wednesday to the Chief of the White House, Suzi Wiles.
“The actions taken by the White House were clearly aimed at punishing the AP for the content of its speech,” Base wrote. “One of the most basic principles of the first amendment is that the government cannot respond to the public or the newspapers.”
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The White House says that Oval office access is a privilege
The White House pointed out that AB was allowed at its conference on Wednesday, but continued to take a problem with the style of the Gulf name. “No one has the right to go to the Oval office and ask the President of the United States to ask questions,” Levit said. “We have the right to decide who to go to the Oval Office.”
In general, a small journalists are allowed when newspapers are allowed to hide the white palace events that are tight. AB, which sends news to thousands of customers, has traditionally been part of the pool in the past administrations.
Asked that AP reporters would retaliate, Lewit said that the Home Secretary had marked the name change in official documents and that “all the other shops in this room have recognized the water as the Gulf of the United States.”
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The move raised the alarms among many lawyers for the newspapers. “Avoid hiding an oval office is to cover up an Oval office, because President Trump has not long accepted the change of name as the Gulf of Mexico, because the first amendment is a contempt for the first amendment,” said Flyit Abrams.
One of the main federation of news agencies, the Interior Press Association on Wednesday said that the White House’s action “censorship and intimidation, violates the freedom of newspapers put forward in the US Constitution.”
IAPA’s president Jose Roberto Tutris expressed concern over the move: “Controlling and warning of the press against AP proves a complex purpose for public interest, with the threat of revenge and revenge to the disadvantaged, the chief executive of El Salvador, the General Director of El Salvador Jose Roberto Tatris said.
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Many people who are writing follow AP style
The company said the users of Google Maps in the United States will now see the water that is referred to as the Gulf of the United States. Mexican users will see the “Gulf of Mexico”. In other parts of the world, Google identifies it as “the Gulf of Mexico (the Gulf of the United States).”
But the results of the AP are influenced because many news agencies and other companies use it as a referee on how to continue to refer.
Some large outlets have their own rules.
– The New York Times Mexico said it continues to use the Gulf, while Trump refers to the rename in the stories that discuss the issue. The Gulf of Mexico and Cuba and the United States of America has been called the Gulf of Mexico for over 400 years.
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– Washington Post The Mexico Gulf said it would use it in most notes, because it is not under the jurisdiction of the United States, the name of the Gulf of the United States may confuse the global readers. “
– Beginning on Sunday, Fox News said the US Gulf would use all its notes.
Trump has ordered that President Barack Obama Alaska’s peak be turned to its native name, Tenali, to Mount McCinley, the tallest mountain of the United States. AB says he will follow Trump’s decision because he has the power to rename the parts within the United States.
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