A week after the White House banished the Associated Press from official events over the wire service’s refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” 40 news outlets signed onto a confidential letter sent by the White House Correspondents’ Association urging the Trump administration to reverse course.
While most of the signatories were unsurprising, such as NPR and CNN, the MAGA networks Fox News and Newsmax also added their names to the letter. “It’s rare for this level of solidarity,” one source familiar with the effort told media reporter Oliver Darcy, who first reported on the letter.
