Fox News And Newsmax Sign Letter Urging Trump To Rescind Ban On The AP

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Feb 21, 2025, 07:53 AM EST


Conservative outlets Fox News and Newsmax have signed onto a letter backed by several news organizations calling on the Trump administration to stop excluding The Associated Press from official White House events. The White House has said it will continue sidelining AP until the news agency uses “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico,” following an executive order by President Donald Trump renaming the body of water.

The letter, which was first reported by Status, was circulated by the White House Correspondents Association and has been signed by 40 news organizations, including Fox News and Newsmax. “The decision to exclude the Associated Press from covering the president aboard Air Force One and in the Oval Office is an escalation of a dispute that does not serve the presidency or the public,” the letter reads, according to The Washington Post. “News organizations must be free to make their own editorial decisions without fear of government intrusion.”

Newsmax also released its own statement on the Trump-AP standoff, saying that while they may often find themselves at odds with AP’s editorial point of view, they felt inclined to speak up in support of the news organization’s First Amendment rights. “We can understand President Trump’s frustration because the media has often been unfair to him, but Newsmax still supports the AP’s right, as a private organization, to use the language it wants to use in its reporting,” the statement reads. “We fear a future administration may not like something Newsmax writes and seek to ban us.”

This letter hasn’t been made public, reflecting the WHCA’s assessment that pressuring the White House behind the scenes might be a better strategy, according to Status.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-newsmax-oppose-trump-ap-ban_n_67b85283e4b05145b9c53cce

[Susan Calvin]

1. Same deal as McConnell.

Too little, too late.

[JohnSJ]

4. It isn't even a little with mcconnell. If one notices he had no problem voting for the confirmation of the worst thugs.

Yeah, he voted down some of the worst, but had no problem voting for a complete unqualified FBI director.

Screw him. It will be a pleasure to see that asshole gone, especially after his blocking of President Obama's SC nomination for almost a year.

[Bengus81]

8. And...how many votes against the ACA, trying kill the ACA, railing on endlessy

about how bad the ACA would be? Hell...I lost count long ago and won't mourn his coming death for a damn second.

Pure EVIL...

[JohnSJ]

12. Yes, a lot very bad things can be laid at his feet.

[Harker]

14. Or placed on his head. n/t

[JohnSJ]

2. That is good to know, but still catering to the thug by making it private to stroke his ego which is maybe

understandable, but if instead all the legitimate news organizations actually did their job and reported scathing articles on the administration attempt to suppress a free press, not only with this, but also on the banning of news organizations from the Pentagon press room.

WTF is wrong with them. Where are the Edward R Murrow, and others from the past who would NEVER sit quietly while crap like this was going on. During the McCarthy era a lot did cower, but there were at least some who pushed back.

[William Seger]

3. We don't really need any more coverage of WH press conferences

AP should devote those resources to reporting the damage that Musk is doing, not the daily spew from "misAmerica 2025."

[Prairie Gates]

11. Agreed...like, you know, real reporting

In Vietnam, the reporters called the MACV press conferences the Five O'Clock Follies. Real reporting was in the field. We need to get back to that here.

[LiberalArkie]

5. They want AP back because they are the only ones who asked real questions. How else was the other media

going to find real information if not for the AP asking the tough questions.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Frankenstein petitions own monster

How quaint.

[4catsmom]

7. they know that 'first they came for the AP'....

[Prairie Gates]

9. STOP. SHOWING. UP. AT. PRESS. EVENTS.

It will be reversed before you miss three consecutive.

Fuck's sake with the letters.

[Tactical Peek]

10. Kayfabe.

That is all.

kay·​fabe ˈkā-ˌfāb
1
: the tacit agreement between professional wrestlers and their fans to pretend that overtly staged wrestling events, stories, characters, etc., are genuine

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kayfabe

[niyad]

13. Thank you forr providing the definition so that I did not have to go

looking for it.

[rickford66]

15. I'll accept "broken clock" for now

[PoliWrangler]

16. Without AP the facade of Fox/Newsmax legitimacy is gone

Fox and Newsmax can't masquerade as real news outlets if they're alone center stage with no actual, real news outlets to blend in with.

[thesquanderer]

17. re: "We fear a future administration may not like something Newsmax writes and seek to ban us."

What future administration? At the rate we're going, Newsmax has nothing to worry about. This administration will be the last one.

[ificandream]

18. This false curtain of pretending to be journalists shouldn't be taken seriously.

Neither Fox nor Newsmax should be considered journalism EVER.