For the past month and a half, Associated Press journalists who cover the White House have existed in a state that one reporter likened to Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment about a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive.
“The AP could be spotted in the parking lot directly across from the entrance to the club, continuing Schrödinger’s Pool Duty at a safe remove from we the official ones,” Washington Post reporter Michael Birnbaum wrote in a March 8 pool report.
Since Feb. 11, when the administration punished the wire service for continuing to use the term “Gulf of Mexico” after President Donald Trump renamed it the “Gulf of America,” the AP has been barred from official White House events and left out of the pool of journalists that cover the president and publish dispatches when space for press access is limited.
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