A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events has refused to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply.

A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press’ from presidential events refused Friday to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply — an incremental development in a two-month dispute between the global news agency and administration officials over access.

The case, which has significant free-speech implications under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, centers on the government blocking AP’s access to cover events because the outlet won’t rename the Gulf of Mexico in its reports.

U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, who handed the AP a victory last week in its efforts to end the ban, said it’s too soon to say that Donald Trump is violating his order — as the AP suggests.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    154·
    3 days ago

    lol

    WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly 100 days, President Donald Trump has rattled Washington and been chastened by its institutions.

    He’s startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria.

    He’s endured the steady drip of investigations and a seemingly endless churn of public personnel drama.

    “It’s a different kind of a presidency,” Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hourlong conversation as he approached Saturday’s key presidential benchmark.

    I’ve said it before and some of you really don’t want to hear this, but AP has soft-pedaled trump since day 1 and now they’re reaping their reward. Perhaps they should have told the truth instead of choosing the barest descriptors to indicate he’s a demented rapist fraud committing treason.

    They’ve never said “lies”. They’ve never made the obvious case that he’s not competent. They’ve done everything every other corporate news sewer has done, which is to state the basics in as non-threatening a way as possible and hope the intellgentsia glean their implications. Which helps no one but themselves.

    Journalism - such as the AP represents - has failed catastrophically. No one is happy about that. But the AP can only blame themselves. In a reasonable world, they would take this as the challenge it is and start busting trump’s chops every day all day - BUT THEY WON’T. They’ll lie down and wait the years it takes to pass, continuing to poop out stenography for the administration until hopefully someone else gains power and lets them back in to the food bowl.

    Fuck the AP. And I say that knowing full well they’re one of the better corporate news sewers. That’s how far down we are. They refuse to help, they refuse to fulfill the basic journalistic brief of speaking truth to power and they do so because they’re run by republiQans who want trump to be their fascist king. I hope they fold as an organization after briefly attempting porn as a last ditch attempt to stay solvent.

    • boughtmysoul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      85·
      3 days ago

      Well I’m glad you managed to find a way to blame the AP for being banned from the White House instead of the one who banned them.