The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment

SABEW First Amendment Statement

The Trump administration’s decision to exclude reporters from The Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters from Air Force One for the president’s first overseas trip violates First Amendment principles and is a disservice to millions of people who rely on the wires for their news. The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) questions the administration’s motivation in taking such unwarranted action. We fail to understand why th…

The Bully’s Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment

On his first day in office, before a crowd of adoring supporters at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC, the president of the United States signed an executive order that, by its terms, sought to restore freedom of speech and end federal censorship. The moment came and went; an aide read out loud what the order was about, without getting into details, and then Donald Trump signed it quickly, moving on to the next one on a pile of executive ac