{"id":94708,"date":"2025-03-03T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=94708"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:43:34","slug":"dc-i-cant-stay-quiet-i-would-urge-all-of-us-not-to-stay-quiet-an-item-re-trump-trying-to-control-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/03\/03\/dc-i-cant-stay-quiet-i-would-urge-all-of-us-not-to-stay-quiet-an-item-re-trump-trying-to-control-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"DC: I can’t stay quiet. I would urge all of us not to stay quiet. An item re: Trump trying to control the media."},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from theguardian.com by Margaret Sullivan
\nThe president punished the AP for choosing its own language, but that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. The press must show unity<\/em><\/p>\n

Even more broadly, it is about Donald Trump\u2019s wide-ranging effort to control the media and be able to spread propaganda and interfere with the flow of accurate information.<\/p>\n

The disagreement started soon after the president decided unilaterally that the Gulf of Mexico was to be called the Gulf of America*<\/strong><\/span>. The executive order was one more display of Trump\u2019s capricious and imperious way of doing things; his first month has been a relentless exercise in chaos and norm-destruction.<\/p>\n

After the Associated Press, the global news organization, decided to stick with using the long-established name which makes sense to its international readership, the Trump White House determined that punishment was in order.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening is ugly. In the US, the government doesn\u2019t get to dictate the language journalists use in their stories. There\u2019s a little thing called the first amendment to the US constitution that prohibits this. But the Trump administration, as usual, has its own \u2013 often unconstitutional and sometimes illegal \u2013 ideas. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The actions against the AP are \u201cretribution, plain and simple, and a shameful attempt to bully the press into ideological compliance\u201d, said Tim Richardson of PEN America.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*Insert from DSC, not from The Guardian:<\/em>
\nThis was an incredibly arrogant thing to do — something a dictator who is drunk on power and wanting even more power, territory, and wealth would do. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To Mexico and to the rest of the world: Please forgive America for what we’ve become. Then pray for us. Our hearts, minds, perspectives, expectations, and behaviors need a lot of help.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media\u00a0— from theguardian.com by Margaret Sullivan The president punished the AP for choosing its own language, but that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. The press must show unity Even more broadly, it is about Donald Trump\u2019s wide-ranging effort to control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,74,285,330,38,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-political-science","category-uk","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94710,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94708\/revisions\/94710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}