The Associated Press is fighting the Trump administration over a mandated name change, presumably because the global newswire sees the twisting and politicization of language as its exclusive remit.
Journalists are territorial, after all.
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Now the AP Cares About Clarity in Language
by Becket Adams
And all it took was a fight with a Republican White House.
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President Donald Trump sits next to a map that shows the Gulf of Mexico, which he renamed the Gulf of America, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 13, 2025.
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Becket Adams is a columnist for National Review, the Washington Examiner, and The Hill.
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