AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AP was barred from the Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president yesterday.

Yup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP was barred from the Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president yesterday.

Yup.

Jokes on them. The Associated Press (AP) can and does use transcripts from other press outlets and vice versa. AP is often cited by other press outlets. I bet they slipped a few questions to their trusted reporter friends from other press in attendance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The suit is unlikely to be successful. Is there a Constitutional right to be in the inner-circle of press covering the President? Didn't Biden ban certain media outlets? Didn't an appeals court already rule on this in the case involving the African reporter (Karem)? While he won that case, the court did say the White House could restrict passes if it gave notice it would suspend for misbehavior. Isn't failing to call a body of water by its legal name inappropriate, particularly if the AP is insisting on doing so to tweak/irritate the President? The First Amendment doesn't mean you get to break the White House rules on media behavior.

Ahem.

Does the judge provide any practical solutions to the issue of space? They can't allow *every* journalist access to those areas. Further, the role of journalist isn't well defined. Everyone with a cellphone is a journalist.

[Anonymous]

Another piece of independent media fails

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-trump-bill-owens.html

CBS/60 Minutes has fallen.