Posted on 02/27/2025 1:31:51 AM PST by Libloather
The White House yanked a reporter at a left-leaning news outlet from the rotation of journalists given special access to President Trump, making good on its pledge to rip control away from the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).
HuffPost’s White House correspondent S.V. Date had been slated to serve as the daily print pool reporter Wednesday, but the Trump administration booted him in the wee hours of the night and replaced him with an Axios reporter.
The administration also kicked Reuters out of the spot it enjoyed as a wire service. In the past, Reuters, the Associated Press and Bloomberg were automatically included in the pool reporters because they are wire services that feed reports to news outlets across the country.
On Wednesday, only Bloomberg was listed in the pool report slot for wire services. The White House seemingly gave Reuters’ and the AP’s spots to The Blaze in a rebranded “new media” perch and Newsmax in a “secondary TV correspondent and crew” perch.
For decades, the White House press corps had an arrangement where a rotating group of news outlets would select reporters to be part of the daily pool, which traditionally included print, wire, television, photo and radio outlets.
The White House pool reporters would then get expanded access to closely follow the president into smaller settings usually off-limits for everyone else, such as the Oval Office or flights on Air Force One.
Pool reporters are tasked with gathering details about the president’s actions, asking questions when possible and then feeding that information to the rest of the White House press corps.
The WHCA has overseen the pool reporter rotation, which includes The Post, for decades. But on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the administration would take control of that process.
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I’d put a desk outside the women’s bathroom reserved for big t time legacy media (AP, Reuters, CNN, and the three and four letters.
Their daily reporting can be to see how many trannies use the women’s bathroom..
Axios is quite Left wing themselves. Its a good idea to no longer allow the leftist corporate media an effective monopoly on White House coverage. They haven’t gone anywhere near far enough yet though. They need to bump a bunch of these Democrat Party propaganda outlets and replace them with representatives of Independent sources that have much larger audience share like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Shawn Ryan etc etc. That’s where most people are getting their news now.
RAV and OAN are becoming very good at honest reporting as well. For me RAV has become the first source.
Good changes. Let them yelp. There is no monopoly on access, syndication or wire services.
What got Trump in trouble last time with Acosta was not laying the ground rules for access well in advance with regulations. I assume they have fixed that and have new rules giving Trump the right to change out whenever he wants.
FLASHBACK: Biden also changed White House press pool, cutting off more than 440 reporters’ credentials
Chanel Rion used to be OAN’s WH reporter. The WHCA pushed her to the back row and made her stand holding her notebooks and stuff. Yet she always got off good questions. So they quit calling on her.
I hope the Trump Admin treats OAN better.
I don’t know who RAV is.
It’s about time! Way, way over due.
“They need to bump a bunch of these Democrat Party propaganda outlets”
A couple days ago, someone — maybe Karoline — called them something like “stenographers for the Democrat party”.
Yesterday, Eric Bolling said that Biden totally pulled his press credentials, along with hundreds of others. I don’t believe PDJT has pulled any credentials, but only rearranged a few things.
Karoline should mention that if the MSM has a problem with the new policy, they can DO WHAT BIDEN DID and pull their press passes.
(I was surprised to see Bolling hosting a show yesterday on RAV.)
“I don’t know who RAV is.”
Real America’s Voice. Bannon. Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, etc.
I hope the New York Tmes is on the short list to take a hike.
MORE WINNING !!!
. Thanks for the heads up on RAV.
This is a much needed change of direction.
Give rsbn and oan a shot.
Move the entire circus off White House grounds.
There’s no other federal auditorium to hold these jackals?
Real America’s Voice. You’ll find Bannon, Posobic and Ted Nugent, and many more. RAV is the better of those two.
We are way past the time all these news-liars should have been given the cold shoulder.
Talking to them and treating them as if they were actual "news" organizations gave them legitimacy they did not deserve. They are *LIARS* who use their credentials as "news" organizations to manipulate the public in order to manipulate elections.
They have long worked against the interests of the United States.
The rest of the Republican coalition should also refuse to talk to them.
How many read the Huff and Puff anyway. Who needs their gotcha questions?
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