The White House Is Revoking Press Passes En Masse

[babylonsister]

https://splinternews.com/the-white-house-is-revoking-press-passes-en-masse-1834628838?rev=1557368465219

The White House Is Revoking Press Passes En Masse
Sophie Weiner
Yesterday 10:20pm


After almost eliminating press conferences, the Trump administration’s campaign against journalists covering the White House has reached a new peak. On Wednesday, the administration revoked the hard passes of almost the entire White House press corps, the Washington Post reports.

After telling all six Post reporters that their hard passes were revoked, the administration then said they’d take requests for “exceptions,” veteran White House journalist Dana Milbank writes. The exceptions were granted for all of the other Post journalists besides Milbank.

From the Post:

The White House press office granted exceptions to the other six, but not to me. I strongly suspect it’s because I’m a Trump critic. The move is perfectly in line with Trump’s banning of certain news organizations, including The Post, from his campaign events and his threats to revoke White House credentials of journalists he doesn’t like.

White House officials provided me no comment for the record.

Milbank points out that due to this change, nearly the entire press corps will be allowed to cover the White House only under these “exceptions,” which could be revoked at any time.

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Just another day in our increasingly authoritarian America!

[forgotmylogin]

1. Sarah Sanders was having to work too hard.

Now she can reduce the number of press conferences she has to do.

[lagomorph777]

2. Good. Transcribing Huckster-Bee's lies was a waste of time anyway.

Let the reporters go out and do real reporting.

[uponit7771]

3. Something more serious is about to go down, attack on Iran ?

[ETStevens]

4. Would the military stop Trump/Bolton?

Could we see the first military coup?

I wonder...

[uponit7771]

10. Nope, that would be man bites dog news ... too many want advancement.

[Iliyah]

5. This is a

administration that is scared. The Republican party is scared as well, which in the whole is very dangerous. Someone mentioned that Bolton is whispering in t-rump's ear . .

Go the war and the your (t-rump) presidency will be put on hold. These people are INSANE.

[kentuck]

6. One of the first steps in a dictatorship...

do away with a free press.

What else should we surmise?

[magicarpet]

7. Perception Management....

Fine tuning the message (propaganda) that is allowed to get out there so as to enhance trDump's win in 2020.

[manor321]

8. There's a reason why we get White House propaganda from many of these reporters

About any time you see a reporter talking with the White House in the background, they are almost always uncritically parroting the White House line of propaganda. It is access journalism.

[WhiteTara]

9. All the rest are breitbart types, I'll bet