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Jeri Dansky
@jeridansky@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

Task for today: Looking over my donations for the year to make sure I didn't miss anything.

And I just made a donation to the Associated Press (whose reporting I read all the time) — the ones who stood up to Trump and said it's the Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf of America.

And its stylebook hasn't back down on the words it uses regarding immigration:

"Except in direct quotations essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant.
Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission. For people: immigrants lacking permanent legal status.

"Do not use the terms alien, unauthorized immigrant, irregular migrant, an illegal, illegals or undocumented (except when quoting people or government documents that use these terms). Many immigrants have some sort of documents, but not the necessary ones."

White House vs. AP: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-broadens-its-absurd-fight-with-the-associated-press-over-gulf-of-mexico/ or
https://web.archive.org/web/20250217211750/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-broadens-its-absurd-fight-with-the-associated-press-over-gulf-of-mexico/

#uspol #journalism

The Daily Beast

The Real Reason Trump Has Gone to War With the Associated Press

“This isn’t just about the Gulf of America,” says Taylor Budowich, a White House deputy chief of staff.
The Daily Beast

The Real Reason Trump Has Gone to War With the Associated Press

“This isn’t just about the Gulf of America,” says Taylor Budowich, a White House deputy chief of staff.
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Joyce Bell :mastodon: 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
@joycebell@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@jeridansky #associatedpress #AP totally worth supporting! Also #propublica Thanks Jeri!

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Jeri Dansky
@jeridansky@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@joycebell Yeah, I donated to ProPublica earlier this year. Now I'm more than bit angry with it because of its stance on the workers' union.

https://union.place/@propublicaguild/115736214313145243

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Jeri Dansky
@jeridansky@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

The AP stylebook is good on trans issues, too. Here's just part:

"transgender (adj.): Describes people whose gender does not match the one usually associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Identify people as transgender only when relevant, and use the name by which they live publicly. Unless it is central to the story, avoid mention of a person’s gender transition or gender-affirmation surgery in news coverage, which can be intrusive and insensitive."

"deadnaming: The practice, widely considered insensitive, offensive or traumatizing, of referring to transgender people who have changed their name by the name they used before their transition. Use a person’s previous name or pretransition image only if required to understand the news or if requested by the person."

"In the AP, use of a transgender person’s previous name must be approved by managers."

#journalism #trans #LGBTQ

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AI6YR Ben
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@jeridansky Thanks, useful to see this again.

The right wingers i know use "illegals" as a racial slur, much like the "n" word. 😡

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