AP excoriates White House barring of reporters as ‘alarming precedent’

Editor Julie Pace writes to Trump's chief of staff about ban on its journalists after AP declines to use Gulf of America'

The executive editor of the Associated Press sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday criticizing its decision to block two of its journalists from attending press events on Tuesday after the outlet refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America".

I write on behalf of The Associated Press, an independent global news organization that reaches billions of people every day, to object in the strongest possible terms to the actions taken by the Trump administration against AP yesterday," Julie Pace, the AP's executive editor, wrote in the letter addressed to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff.