The AP previously announced that his journalist was prevented by signing in the Oval Office because the Agency “did not harmonize editorial standards with the President’s Executive Regulation” by which the bay was renamed.
Today, the 180-year-old journalist was again denied access to the oval office where the new head of the National Intelligence Service Tulsa Gabbard recalled. Asked about such decisions, the spokeswoman of the White House Karolina Leavitt said that the Trump Government “does not tolerate media lies.”
“We keep the right to decide who enters the oval office,” said Leavitt CNN journalists, calling access to the President’s Office “Invitation” and Privilege, not right.
“If we believe that the media house is broader to this room, we keep the right to meet that,” white house spokeswoman warned.
“The fact is that the water body in front of the Louisiana coast is called the Gulf. And I don’t know why the media wants him to call it, but that’s how it is”.
She emphasized that the American Ministry of the Interior has served the name of the bay and that it is already respected by Apple and Google that changed it to navigation applications.
In the announcement on Tuesday, the Executive Editor of the AP Julie Pace called the decision of the White House “alarming”.
“Limiting access to the oval office based on the AP writing not only limits the public access to independent news but also violates the first amendment” that guarantees the freedom of speech, it wrote.
Trump ordered the renamation of the highest top of North America, from Denali in Mount McKinley, by the change that former President Barack Obama introduced 2015. To respect the Native Population of Alaska and the name he uses for that mountain.
The AP was announced last month that Trump’s Executive Regulation “is valid only within the US”. “As a world news agency that publishes around the world, the AP must be sure that geographic names are recognized to all users,” the Associated Press added.
But the AP then said that Mount McKinley will write because that top is located “only in the United States, and Trump as the president has the authority to change the geographical names within the country.”
(Vijesti.ba / Hina)
