US EditionWhite House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting
- The White House decided to control who is part of the press pool, determining which reporters have access to the President and other events.
- Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters were excluded from covering a cabinet meeting, which many view as a threat to press freedom.
- The White House will exclude traditional outlets, adding right-leaning news organizations instead, which has drawn criticism from the White House Correspondents' Association President Eugene Daniels.
- Eugene Daniels condemned the decision, claiming it undermines a free press in the United States.
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Trump also denied German newspaper access to cabinet meeting
Several journalists, including three reporters from the "Tagesspiegel", are not allowed to attend the first cabinet meeting of the US President. The fact that the White House and no longer the independent journalists' association regulates access to the Oval Office is critical.
PBS, Stelter, NYT Agree About Trump’s Kremlin-Style ‘Chilling Effect’ on AP
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour featured guest Brian Stelter, editor of CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter (and reliable white knight for the mainstream media) to discuss the “chilling effect” of the Trump Administration blocking the Associated Press from the White House pool of reporters.
White House begins yanking adversarial news outlets from pool rotation
HuffPost's White House correspondent S.V. Date had initially been slated to serve as the daily print pool reporter Wednesday, but the Trump administration booted him in the wee hours of the night.
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