White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event

[UpInArms]

Source: CNN

The White House took retaliatory action against Kaitlan Collins, a White House reporter for CNN, after Collins asked President Trump questions at an Oval Office photo op on Wednesday.

CNN, rival networks, and the White House Correspondents Association all spoke out against the administration's action.

On Wednesday afternoon Collins was representing all the television networks as the "pool reporter" in the room during a meeting between Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission.

As is customary, Collins lobbed a few questions at the president. She asked about Vladimir Putin and Michael Cohen. Trump did not answer the questions.

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"They said 'You are dis-invited from the press availability in the Rose Garden today,'" Collins said in an interview. "They said that the questions I asked were inappropriate for that venue. And they said I was shouting."

Read more: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/25/media/white-house-kaitlan-collins-press-pool/index.html

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The assault on the First Amendment is brazen Facism

[BigmanPigman]

1. The press should retaliate.

Keith Olbermann had a great idea a year ago...

...In his latest clip for GQ’s “The Resistance” series, the former MSNBC and ESPN journalist blasted news organisations for sticking to the “fanciful, noble but stupid conception of balance” while Trump just “laughs at them.”

Instead of broadcasting the “lies within lies within lies” that are regularly put out by Trump and members of his government, Olbermann suggested reporters should be “boycotting these people outright.”
And when faced with media blackouts of White House press briefings, he encouraged journalists to record them anyway, as one reporter did Wednesday when she live-streamed the event — or just to walk out.
Trump had “declared war on the freedom of the press and freedom of speech” in the U.S., Olbermann said. And it was now time for the media to “fight back.”

“Stop making sure your coverage is balanced by countering everybody reporting the truth with somebody else who is lying,” he said. “War has been declared against the values of this country by the man in charge of this country.”

“Fight back while you still can,” Olbermann added.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-donald-trump-mueller_us_5971adcbe4b00e4363dea2e8

[backtoblue]

2. I completely agree with Keith

Stop making sure your coverage is balanced by countering everybody reporting the truth with somebody else who is lying,” he said. “War has been declared against the values of this country by the man in charge of this country.”

[G_j]

3. A good honest reporter

I guess that’s the problem.
sickening