News organizations including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and Politico were blocked from joining an informal, on the record White House press briefing on Friday.
The Associated Press chose not to participate in the gaggle following the move by White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
“The AP believes the public should have as much access to the president as possible,” Lauren Easton, the AP’s director of media relations, said in a statement.
Several news organizations were allowed in, including the conservative website Breitbart News. The site’s former executive chairman, Steve Bannon, is chief strategist to President Donald Trump.
The White House defended the decision not to include some news organizations.
“We invited the pool so everyone was represented. We decided to add a couple of additional people beyond the pool. Nothing more than that,” said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
Earlier Friday in a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Donald Trump railed against the media.
Reaction from barred media outlets was swift.
“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties. We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest,” Dean Baquet, the Times’ executive editor, said in a statement.
“This is an unacceptable development by the Trump White House. Apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don’t like. We’ll keep reporting regardless,” CNN said in a statement.
Fox News anchor @BretBaier slams White House after other news outlets were barred from briefing pic.twitter.com/bF5Gd0nHqF
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 24, 2017
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those fake news outlets that got blocked asked for it and have it coming to them, plain and simple. and it has nothing whatsoever to do with compromising their 1st ammendment rights. first ammendment rights of news reporting pertain to factual news not fabricated stories like these fake news outlets do on a continuous basis. they do have a 1st ammendment right to say what they want–but, if it’s fabricated, never in a newspaper or on public media, which should be reserved for facts only. otherwise, they have every constitutional right to get on a soapbox in central park and say what they want, even if it’s made up.
Wow again FAKE NEWS
However, as the New York Times
itself reported in 2015, President Barack Obama met privately with liberal reporters and columnists frequently throughout his tenure in office — “more than a dozen” times. And although he occasionally invited conservative columnists, “Liberal-leaning columnists from newspapers tend to dominate at Mr. Obama’s secret sessions.”
Obama’s private briefings for liberal members of the media, which excluded conservatives, were well-documented. A few:
December 2012: Several journalists reported that MSNBC hosts were meeting privately with President Obama to discuss the impending “fiscal cliff” fight.
May 2013: NPR’s Ari Shapiro reported that President Obama was meeting privately with “lefty columnists,” but hastened to add that there was “nothing nefarious” about it.
November 2013: President Obama met again with liberal journalists, as Obamacare struggled with the failure of healthcare.gov and other problems.
March 2015: Politico’s media reporter, Hadas Gold, reported that “a group of journalists and columnists,” all on the left, met privately with President Obama, but the White House refused to say “who else was at the meeting or what was discussed.”
This is real news
NOT CNN
ויקרא שמו במדיה
CLINTON NEWS NETWORK
as the President calls them
Pathetic. The man who quoted the National Enquirer throughout the campaign and plants false stories about crowd size and NH voter fraud is “outraged” over “fake news”. Trump couldn’t care less about fake news. He makes use of it whenever it suits his agenda. What bothers him is “critical news”. He prefers to be fawned over and praised by outlets like Breibart and Drudge.
Re comment no. 1: You have almost no understanding of the First Amendment. Go online, google right-wing news sources, read what they say about you and me and all other Jews. It is a pack of preposterous lies (is it your turn to set interest rates or mine?), and it is constitutionally protected.
The New York Times has, for over a hundred years, built a reputation for accuracy in its news reports. Dopie Donnie may not like that, but that is true, no matter what he thinks.
#5 huju – I don’t know who you are, but I suspect you may work for the NYT and I question if you are even Jewish. It is well known among religious Jews the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic leanings that NYT has had for decades. Just do a Google search for “New York Times Anti-Israel” or “New York Times Anti-Semitic” and you can view a plethora of websites on the topic; including this YWN post:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/452587/an-op-ed-on-the-new-york-times.html
DON’T KID YOURSELF!!!
To huju: Really? NYT & accuracy? I guess you haven’t read the history of the NYT lying and supressing the news of Jews being murdered during WWII. The NYT has a long history of antisemitic lying, particularly about Israel. (Do you know even one Israeli soldier who wandered the streets searching for Palestinian children to torture?)
he New York Times has, for over a hundred years, built a reputation for accuracy in its news reports
Huju obviously thinks Israel is an aggressor and the Palestinians are freedom fighters
No. 5: you mean the reporters of 100 years ago are still reporting today? You may as well say the United States is the same United States under Trump as under George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Or, you can keep up with the swiftly changing events whether it is the president or the media organizations – they all change.
Trump appears to fear a free press. He relies on outlandish new sources such as the National Enquirer, Infowars abd Breitbart none of which have any standards.
Long overdue
5.
Your comment is mamesh purim torah!!!
Since you’re a leftist, shall i remind you whom the democrats were about to elect at the head of the DNC? Keith Ellerson, a yishmaeli yemach sh’mo. I guess you’re okay with that.
I have no idea what you’re talking about when you mention those
“… right-wing news sources,” but I sure know about those left socialist liberal Democrat leftist fakenews sources.
As for the Slimes, i can’t even quote you because I’m laughing WAAAAAAY to hard. They’re honest? You think they report honestly on anything that’s not leftist? They report accurately on EY? THEY ARE A BUNCH OF LIARS!! BH someone finally has the guts to call them on it.
One more question for you that I’m sure you won’t be able to answer. If for whatever the Torah writes לא, ז the democrat party says yes, how can ANY Jew be a socialist liberal Democrat?
Good move
“plants false stories”
Your post is an example of what “fake news” is. Trump shoots off at the mouth and you call that “plants false stories”. What planting a story (false or otherwise) is what the activities described by poster #2 about Obama is all about. Trump always was and still is a loud mouth. That has nothing to do with the meaning of planting a false story.
the media doesn’t deserve anything. trump has decided for a change to get down and dirty with these guys and play hardball with them. so those that he deems unfair and biased don’t get access. i have no problem with it they have only themselves to blame
You mean like Jayson Blair?
Re comment no. 14: You are half right but totally wrong. Years before Trump was president, he would call reporters, give a false identity, and give false information about Donald Trump.
El Rushbo: Last time I looked ,”yemach shemo” is only applicable to Amalek and, by extension Rome and what followed. Nowhere do the “yishme’elim” merit “yemach shemo”. “jat kol bo” maybe, but not “yemach shrmo”. There are over a million “yishem-elim” in Israel. Should they all be addressed so?