Posted on 11/09/2020 10:02:19 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Buzzfeeds Rosie Gray and The Atlantics McKay Coppins breached reporting rules by attending War Room: Pandemics election night event and attempting to interview attendees and participants despite not being invited as reporters and failing to declare themselves to attendees as such.
Gray, who serves as a politics and media reporter for cat meme blog Buzzfeed, recently published an article chronicling War Room: Pandemics election night party, which National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam co-hosted alongside Steve Bannon. She attended the event alongside fellow establishment journalist McKay Coppins a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Coppins also penned an article about his experiences at the election night party also featuring interviews with attendees.
Video, however, reveals that the individuals were not invited to the event as guests or reporters.
Kassam can be heard telling the duo they didnt attend the event as reporters and are, therefore, not okay to print what you interviewed in here tonight:
Im putting this on the record. You are not here as reporters. You are not invited as reporters. And you are not okay to print what you interviewed in here tonight. Okay?
Immediately after, the two acquiesce and concede we werent here as reporters.
Gray, who retreats while mumbling this is so absurd, appears to cry as Kassam forces the pair to exit the party. The pair also initially tried to exit the building via the toilet, before being ushered the right way by Kassam and colleagues.
It appears the two were covertly (and underhandedly) 'interviewing' legitimate guests. Guests were unaware the two were reporters and they were being 'interviewed'.
The two were identified and ejected.
bttt
LOL...watch Raheem kicking them out.
https://twitter.com/raheemkassam/status/1325597094783102983?s=21
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