{"id":58461,"date":"2016-12-01T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58461"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:08:09","slug":"ap-issues-reporting-guidelines-for-alt-right-as-kkk-neo-nazi-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58461","title":{"rendered":"AP Issues Reporting Guidelines for \u201cAlt-Right\u201d as KKK, Neo-Nazi Trump Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Jim Hoft<br \/>\nThe GATEWAY PUNDIT<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is crazy.<br \/>\nThe Associated Press released new guidelines for using the term \u201calt right\u201d in association with Trump supporters. The new rules urge journalists to connect the group to Nazis and KKK members in their reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t be fooled \u2013 The left is doing this so they can label all Trump supporters as racists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-new-size wp-image-348107\" src=\"http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-575x363.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-575x363.jpg 575w, http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-768x484.jpg 768w, http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-1024x646.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-370x233.jpg 370w, http:\/\/16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-supporters-1-1260x795.jpg 1260w\" alt=\"trump-supporters\" width=\"575\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This enables hateful liberal reporters to label all Trump reporters as evil racists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AP can go to hell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/307709-ap-avoid-using-alt-right-without-defining-the-movements-racist\">The Hill<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Associated Press Monday released new guidelines for referencing the \u201calt-right,\u201d which ask that journalists use the term alongside its definition and in context of its association with racist beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines read:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Alt-right\u2019 (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the \u2018self-described\u2019 or \u2018so-called alt-right\u2019 in stories discussing what the movement says about itself. Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters\u2019 actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines come after criticism of media outlets by some observers who view the term has having \u201cnormalized\u201d President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nationalistic rhetoric and that of some Trump supporters. Specifically, many object to the term\u2019s use alongside senior adviser Stephen Bannon, whose hiring was applauded by neo-Nazi and KKK groups.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon has described Breitbart News, his former outlet, as \u201cthe platform of the alt-right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new reference went on to say that, \u201cin the past (The AP) have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error\" data-lang=\"en\" data-twitter-extracted-i1480615400945528767=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AP issues \u2018Alt Right Reporting Guidelines,\u2019 Must be connected to Nazis and KKK in all articles<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mQjZJcdu4h\">http:\/\/t.co\/mQjZJcdu4h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/803323227409883137\">November 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2016\/11\/ap-issues-reporting-guidelines-alt-right-kkk-neo-nazi-tump-supporters\/\">http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2016\/11\/ap-issues-reporting-guidelines-alt-right-kkk-neo-nazi-tump-supporters\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}