Agency says reporter not allowed to go to signing in effort to ‘punish’ its style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico
  • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 hours ago

    I know of at least one US government web page that still references “Gulf of Mexico”, but I don’t want to link it, because I’m very curious to see how long it can fly under the radar. I have a thing set up that checks the page regularly and will alert me whenever it changes.

    Is there a way to set up archive.org or something like that to save regular snapshots without risking drawing more attention to it?

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    6 hours ago

    I hate news articles so much. “The (underlined) Associated Press said” ahh, this must be a link to the actual quote, I’ll read that. Nope! Just a link to their website. At least it’s not as bad as other sites that link to other random articles.

  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    35·
    8 hours ago

    Blocking the press is how the Trump admin can they make this absurd distraction a much bigger deal with no repercussions. The power of names is much diminished in these times. We need a better name vibe. call it Gulf of Slow The Fuck Down

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Seems like the AP isn’t counting the lights in the official manner. There’s five lights. It’s official. It’s not something there’s any need to stubbornly disagree about, Picard.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
    110·
    12 hours ago

    Gives me a little extra respect for AP than before. Don’t comply with fascists. Make them show just how incredibly sensitive and ridiculous they are.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      432·
      9 hours ago

      More respect for the AP? Them and Reuters are the two defacto news orgs that 95% of other news get their articles from lmfao.

      • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Oh, for sure. I’ve noticed a lot of other news sites simply citing them or republishing their content. To clarify, I didn’t mean what I said in any kind of “I didn’t respect them much before” kind of way. I heavily respect them, as well as ProPublica, like another person mentioned earlier. I just hold even more respect from them after this.

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 hours ago

        I love AP, too. Even Reuters can get a little eyebrow-raising sometimes, but I find AP pretty consistently solid. They’re straight-up targeting the actual, real-deal journalists. ProPublica’s likely to be fucked with, too.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    257·
    13 hours ago

    Good. Get punished. Don’t go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won’t get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get “punished” in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1271·
      13 hours ago

      Even from the ideal pro-capitalist hat on; AP benefits from this. It might seem that short term they lose money by not having hot off the press news to sell, but long term they keep their credibility, which is ultimately the product they sell.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    91·
    8 hours ago

    Tell is Donald Trump is a whiny piss baby without telling us he’s a whiny piss baby.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      10 hours ago

      Not even deadnamed. The “name change” only impacts like a specific section of it, not the whole thing.

  • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    354·
    11 hours ago

    Any press still allowed in is just bootlicking government mouthpieces anyway.