Saturday, February 25, 2017

Multiple major news outlets denied entry of White House press briefing

A host of major US news outlets were barred from participating in a White House press gaggle Friday, underscoring the escalating tension between US President Donald Trump and the media.


Cable News Network, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Politico were excluded from a off-camera press gaggle, an informal press briefing, given by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

Other press that were blocked included British Broadcasting Company, Buzzfeed, the Hill, the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, New York Daily News and most of the foreign press, according to a report from Axios.

The White House press office said in an email that "the pool was there, so various media mediums were represented."

The White House Correspondent's Associated lashed at the decision, saying in a statement that it is "protesting strongly against how today's gaggle is being handled by the White House."

The Associated Press and Time magazine boycotted the gaggle in response to the incident.

The move was considered very rare and many senior White House correspondents don't recall something similar has had happened before.
 [Xinhua/China]
25/2/17

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