The Deplorables have spoken... The Deplorables have spoken...From what I understand the President Elect Trump has authority to approve of which media has a seat for the White House Briefings.
Ari Fleischer: Trump Battle Vs. White House Press Looming
By Theodore Bunker | Monday, 28 Nov 2016 03:11 PM
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer questioned how president-elect Donald Trump will work with the White House press corps, which is dominated by the same mainstream media outlets he disparaged in his campaign.
“The clash will go beyond ideology and the media’s dislike of Mr. Trump personally,” Fleischer wrote in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal. “It will happen because, while the press as an institution is largely in decline throughout the U.S., the White House briefing room is one of the mainstream media’s last bunkers of power.”
“Every incoming president has basic, generally agreed upon rules of the road,” Joe Lockhart, who served as former president Bill Clinton’s White House press secretary, told The Hill.
“The Trump team has decided they’ll blow up the road and build a new one. Where it goes from here will be a test of how far the new president and his team want to push things, and the strength and will of the press to push back.”
“While approximately 750 reporters hold White House credentials,” Fleischer wrote, “the briefing room holds 49 seats, and they are occupied overwhelmingly by mainstream media reporters, with barely any assigned to the new dot-com world.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/press-news-media-White-House/2016/11/28/id/760982/