The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities.
The White House official said eligible outlets will be chosen for the pool on a rotating basis, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool. So Karoline sets the lineup!
Score another Win for the women!
Eugene Daniels,
an MSNBC host and the WHCA’s current president, wrote to members late Tuesday saying the Trump administration was “using a new means to do the same thing: retaliate against news organizations for coverage the White House doesn’t like.”
Daniels said the WHCA was “working to find out what this means in practice” but said such a restriction “only hurt the American people who rely on unfiltered journalism to stay informed and make decisions critical to their lives.”
In a statement to The Hill, the AP echoed Daniels’s displeasure, saying, “The administration’s actions continue to disregard the fundamental American freedom to allow the Press to set the line-up as to who can ask the questions at a Press Conference is a grave disservice to the American people.”
*WHCA is the "white house correspondence association" that has been around since 1914.
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