Reporters are in a dither than Team Trump’s committing a “naked violation of the First Amendment” by denying access to the Associated Press. So said Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, adding “As [press secretary Karoline] Leavitt recited her position, she might as well have been stomping on a copy of the Bill of Rights under the lectern.”
The tiff started over the AP refusing to acknowledge President Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Both sides are digging in. The liberal media blob didn’t react this way when Team Biden obstructed access to the New York Post in their time. The AP in no way should be presented as nonpartisan or “the gold standard of neutrality.”
On the PBS News Hour, NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith claimed Trump “going after AP for an editorial choice, is going directly at the First Amendment. It is going directly at the…
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