The White House Correspondents' Association on Friday "strongly" protested the White House decision to host an invite-only press briefing on Friday that excluded outlets like the New York Times and CNN.
"The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today's gaggle is being handled by the White House," Reuters reporter and chairman of the association Jeff Mason said in a statement Friday. "We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff."
There was no televised daily White House briefing on Friday, and instead, White House press secretary Sean Spicer invited some reporters to a "gaggle" in the afternoon. The Washington Examiner was among the outlets invited to the briefing.
Those not invited were the New York Times, the Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, CNN, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News.
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This is a breath of fresh air the last 8 years we had to listen to the hacks of the so called Watch Dogs suck up to Obama and throw him softball questions.
ReplyDeleteIf those MSM outlets can't report the news after getting it firsthand, let them have it secondhand. They planted the seeds and now watch them sprout and grow.
ReplyDeleteRotate these pos out.
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ReplyDeleteHope he had the decency to provide tissues, counselors, safe spaces and therapy pets!
In the real world, ROFLMA!
What about all the private meetings with Obama and the news media. He had them come to the whitehouse at night for a drink so they could get their marching orders.
ReplyDeleteThe "opposition" has no right to come to the party. When they report the news, instead of trying to be the news, maybe they will be allowed back on the playground.
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