WASHINGTON: The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association protested a decision by the White House on Tuesday to bar an Associated Press reporter from an event with President Donald Trump over the news agency\u2019s decision to continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico.
\nTrump signed an executive order in January directing the Interior Secretary to change the name to the Gulf of America.
\n\u201cThe White House cannot dictate how news organizations report the news, nor should it penalize working journalists because it is unhappy with their editors\u2019 decisions,\u201d Eugene Daniels, president of the association, said on Tuesday in a statement posted on X.
\n\u201cThe move by the administration to bar a reporter from the Associated Press from an official event open to news coverage today is unacceptable,\u201d Daniels said.
\nAP Executive Editor Julie Pace said in a statement earlier that its reporter had been blocked from attending an Oval Office event after being informed by the White House it would be barred unless it aligned its editorial standards with Trump\u2019s order.
\n\u201cIt is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,\u201d Pace said, adding that limiting access violated the First Amendment of the US Constitution guaranteeing freedom of the press.
\nThe AP says in its stylebook that the Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years and, as a global news agency, the AP will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.
\nThe White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the statements by the WHCA and the AP. Mexico\u2019s foreign ministry also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
\nLike the US, Mexico has a long coastline circling the body of water. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in January jokingly suggested North America, including the United States, be renamed \u201cMexican America\u201d \u2014 a historic name used on an early map of the region.
\nMost news organizations, including Reuters, call it the Gulf of Mexico although, where relevant, Reuters style is to include the context about Trump\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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