Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico
  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    306·
    5 months ago

    Good. Get punished. Don’t go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won’t get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get “punished” in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1581·
      5 months ago

      Even from the ideal pro-capitalist hat on; AP benefits from this. It might seem that short term they lose money by not having hot off the press news to sell, but long term they keep their credibility, which is ultimately the product they sell.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      Not even deadnamed. The “name change” only impacts like a specific section of it, not the whole thing.

  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    46·
    5 months ago

    Blocking the press is how the Trump admin can they make this absurd distraction a much bigger deal with no repercussions. The power of names is much diminished in these times. We need a better name vibe. call it Gulf of Slow The Fuck Down

  • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    404·
    5 months ago

    Any press still allowed in is just bootlicking government mouthpieces anyway.

  • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    5 months ago

    I know of at least one US government web page that still references “Gulf of Mexico”, but I don’t want to link it, because I’m very curious to see how long it can fly under the radar. I have a thing set up that checks the page regularly and will alert me whenever it changes.

    Is there a way to set up archive.org or something like that to save regular snapshots without risking drawing more attention to it?

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Install ArchiveBox. Even if you don’t have a home server or VPS, you can run it on your regular PC - it’s just a Docker container, or if you don’t like Docker, you can run the Python code directly. http://archivebox.io/

      That way, it’s under your full control, and you keep all the data.

      For tracking changes to sites, changedetection.io is free and open-source if you self-host it. Just their remotely hosted version costs money.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    321·
    5 months ago

    toss another lawsuit on the fire in 4… 3… 2… 1…

  • miscellanii@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    Interesting to note that they’re standing firm on Gulf of Mexico but not Denali.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      30·
      5 months ago

      one is an international body of water, the other is wholly contained within the borders of the u.s. that’s why they went that route.

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Side note: everyone called it Denali before Obama renamed it anyway, and everyone is doing to continue to call it Denali

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    191·
    5 months ago

    I hate news articles so much. “The (underlined) Associated Press said” ahh, this must be a link to the actual quote, I’ll read that. Nope! Just a link to their website. At least it’s not as bad as other sites that link to other random articles.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      The worst are the outlets that appear to outright refuse to link to anything but their own site… It will reference something, and instead of the link actually going to the thing, it goes to the last article they posted on the thing. Ugh. Few things make me leave a news site faster.