Free speech for me, not for thee, is how many people see things. And it’s certainly how the media thinks.
The AP, which actively collaborated to censor Americans, now claims that the Trump administration is interfering with its “free speech” by not inviting it to cover events.
“And, you know, really you mentioned this is about Gulf of America, Gulf of Mexico, you know, yes, it’s about that, but it’s also about something so much bigger. You know, this is about freedom of speech. And that is a principle, a right that Americans across the political spectrum believe in deeply,” Julie Pace, the executive editor for the Associated Press, claimed.
“This is about whether the government can control the language that we use, that ordinary people can use. And it’s about whether the government can retaliate against you if you don’t use the language that they prefer. So we are standing up for that, right? “
I like how Pace groups one of the most powerful news activist groups in the world with “ordinary people”.
Is the Trump administration forcing ordinary people to say “Gulf of America”?
When it comes to censoring Americans though, the AP has black ink on its hands. The media activist group took part in Facebook’s notorious ‘fact checking’ program that was used to censor ordinary people in order to promote partisan left-wing agendas.
The AP, along with fact-checking sites like (Poynter-owned) PolitiFact, Snopes and Factcheck.org, partnered with Facebook in December 2016 to find and debunk false news stories on the platform. Once a hoax is flagged as false, its future reach in the News Feed is decreased and a fact check is appended to it.
So censorship.
The AP is even more hypocritical for accusing the Trump administration of controlling language when its stylebook notoriously adopted leftist neologisms and politically correct euphemisms that everyone in certain professions was forced to use.
The AP stylebook banned the use of illegal alien because “many immigrants and migrants have some sort of documents, but not the necessary ones.”
That’s coming from the same organization which complains about calling a body the Gulf of America.
The AP has no leg to stand on, no defense and no shame.