The Trump White House will be the wire god from the reporting pool, the latest Salvo in its struggle with the AP

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Instead of restoring access to the Associated Press Newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration deprives the wire position in the Daily Press Corps rotation as a whole.

The change appears to withstand the legal examination and at the same time disadvantage the AP, which was used by President Do Nald Trump at the beginning of this year because he still used the name Gulf of Mexico.

Ultimately, the effects of customers of Newswire customers will be felt, including local news agencies that rely on the AP for reporting on the facts because they have no own correspondents of the White House.

The AP said in a statement on Tuesday evening: “The government’s actions continue to ignore basic American freedom without speaking or retaliating the government. This is a serious disadvantage for the American people.”

It is the composition of the so-called “press pool”, a small group of journalists who travel with the president and cover events on behalf of the entire press corps. Pool rotation is crucial because many events of the President such as the Oval Office photo and the Air Force One -Q & A take place in small groups.

For decades, the pool assignments were determined by the correspondence association of the White House, an independent group that is the press. But in February, Trump press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt cut out the group and took control of the pool.

Most of the news agencies that previously turned alternately in the pool continued to do so. Leavitt also added a few places that often (but not always) go to new media that touch him for Trump instead of impartial covering it.

On Tuesday, officials formalized by the White House in a memo formalized pool criteriaPresent And speaks a point for wires, although wire services like the AP are fundamental to reporting the White House.

Instead, there is now a second print journalist place, and wires can be justified together with many others for the two printing stains. In practice, this means that AP, Reuters and Bloomberg have significantly less access than in January when all three were in the pool every day.

The Trump administration triggered a fight with the AP in February because the Wire Service did not change its stylbook from “Gulf of Mexico” to “Golf of America”.

While Trump provides for the US government to rename the Golf, other countries do not recognize the new name. The AP is a global news agency, so its stories still refer to the Gulf of Mexico and at the same time recognize Trump’s decree.

The Trump White House started AP journalists from pooled events and even full-fledged press conferences, citing the Gulf Dreier. The AP filed a lawsuit in front of a federal court and claimed violations of the first and fifth changes.

Last week the judge Trevor McFadden stood on the Wire -Service website and wrote: “The constitution prohibits discrimination due to the perspective, even in a non -public forum like the Oval Office.”

McFadden said that the White House had to “put the AP on the same field despite the use of unfavorable terminology by the AP”.

The judge’s arrangement is reflected in the updated pool plan of the White House, which transfers the AP and “similarly located outlets” such as Reuters and Bloomberg to an “same field” by changing the field as a whole.

The memo of Tuesday refuted the claim of the “Viewpoint discrimination” and said that “Outlets are entitled to participate in the pool regardless of the content of the content, which is expressed by an outlet.”

The AP said that it was “deeply disappointed” to “restrict the access of all wire services, whose fast and accurate coverage of the White House influences billions of people every day instead of resuming the associated press in the wire pool”.

In a statement, Reuters told CNN: “It is important for democracy that the public has access to independent, impartial and precise news about their government. All steps of the US government to limit access to the president threatens this principle for both the public and the media in the world.”

The NBC correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, a former president of the correspondence association, complained that the cut in a social media post complained.

“Wire reporters are among the most knowledgeable and the White House Beat,” she wrote. “They are on duty every day of the year and all over the world to cover a president. Your work is an important building block for the work of other media. Wires play a decisive role in understanding the government and important events of the public.”