{"id":107790,"date":"2025-02-24T00:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107790"},"modified":"2025-02-24T00:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:46:26","slug":"107790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107790","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The AP’s feelings get hurt; it’s a First Amendment crisis!<\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press (AP) makes its money selling stories to other media outlets. It pays \u201cstringers\u201d\u2014reporters and photographers\u2014around the world to submit stories, which it makes available to its subscriber outlets who can\u2019t afford to send reporters and photographers around the globe.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a good thing for smaller media outlets like local new stations, but it\u2019s also a very bad thing because then the AP makes mistakes, or goes woke, so do its subscribers who have no way of knowing they\u2019re making those mistakes. They do know they\u2019re going woke, but even if they\u2019d rather not, their choice is to play along or drop the AP feed. A good example of the AP\u2019s wokeness and anti-Americanism is this:<\/p>\n

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Shira Bibas\u2019 sons \u201cdied in captivity.\u201d An honest and accurate account\u00a0would say Bibas and her boys, 4 and 10 months, were savagely strangled by Hamas terrorists, and their bodies were clumsily mutilated so Hamas could claim they died in an Israeli airstrike, a perversely stupid and easily exposed lie.<\/p>\n

The AP also uses its style guide to enforce wokeness and media outlets, including the majors, happily go along. It\u2019s an enviable perch atop the media hierarchy and the AP has become used to certain perks, among them, a prominent chair in the White House Press Room.<\/p>\n

Until, that is, the AP decided to keep calling the Gulf of America the Gulf of Mexico, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, surely with the permission of President Trump, banished them, also from Air Force One and other places and events. This is also surely a part of Leavitt\u2019s reshuffling the Press Room deck, booting established outlets replacing them with new media.to give new media a chance.<\/p>\n

The horror.<\/p>\n

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Well, they can\u2019t do that to the AP, because, uh, well, harumph, because\u00a0they\u2019re the AP<\/u>, and journalism and First Amendment and Trump and stuff!<\/em>\u00a0So, the AP sued for those, ahem, reasons:<\/p>\n

The suit was filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington. The AP is seeking an emergency hearing and a court order to declare the ban unconstitutional and require them to rescind it.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

An \u201cemergency\u201d hearing! Cue the lawyers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government. The Constitution does not allow the government to control speech. Allowing such government control and retaliation to stand is a threat to every American\u2019s freedom.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Associated Press is filing this suit to protect other (legacy bullsh#t) news outlets from suffering the same fate of being banished from The White House. Whatever would we do without CNN, MSNBC and the likes of them?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly!\u00a0\u00a0Why, this is an outrage! it\u2019s unprecedented! It\u2019s\u2026what\u2019s that?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not?<\/em><\/p>\n

And, while we are on the topic of Mr. Biden, remember when he banned The New York Post from a briefing on airline policies with Pete Buttigieg because of one name: Miranda Devine.\u00a0\u201cno credentials were available?\u201d<\/del>\u00a0But it wasn\u2019t just The New York Post that had their crews revoked back in 2023. More than 440 reporters<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0lost their press badges<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0when Biden was at the helm in 2023. More from Potato Head Stelter and CNN:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor decades The AP has been a foundational part of the so-called White House \u2018press pool\u2019 that travels with the president at all times and shares information with the wider press corps.\u201d-Brian Stelter<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See? See? The AP is \u201cfoundational!\u201d And the press pool is \u201cso-called!\u201d And only the AP is qualified, because it\u2019s foundational, foundational I tell you, to pass on White House news to everyone else!\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0There are a few problems with the line of bovine patties:<\/p>\n

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The First Amendment doesn\u2019t guarantee media outlets can be wherever they want whenever they want. The AP isn\u2019t in anyway restrained from reporting as it chooses. It just can\u2019t dictate rules to the POTUS\u2014any POTUS. Vice President Vance elucidated another, entirely constitutional, condition:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re a propagandist for the Democratic Party, then we\u2019re going to treat you like a propogandist for the Democratic Party.\u201d-Vice President, J.D. Vance<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the First Amendment?!\u00a0\u00a0Freedom of the Press?!<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your point? Telling any media outlet they\u2019re out until they learn to behave doesn\u2019t invoke the First Amendment. There\u2019s no prior restraint. No one is demanding the AP surrender sources. No one is threatening to arrest AP flacks for what they write. The poor AP\u2019s feelings are hurt. So sad.<\/p>\n

As with other Executive Branch decisions, this is not reviewable by the courts. There\u2019s no constitutional issue. That doesn\u2019t mean the courts won\u2019t get involved, but since this touches on the separation of powers and the First Amendment, the Supreme Court just might decide to deal with this on an emergency basis, and the AP might have to decide whether it\u2019s more important to its subscribers to have complete access or to virtue signal.<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to guess their choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AP’s feelings get hurt; it’s a First Amendment crisis! The Associated Press (AP) makes its money selling stories to other media outlets. It pays \u201cstringers\u201d\u2014reporters and photographers\u2014around the world to submit stories, which it makes available to its subscriber outlets who can\u2019t afford to send reporters and photographers around the globe. That\u2019s a good … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,103,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-good-and-hard","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107791,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107790\/revisions\/107791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}