Posted on 02/26/2025 1:48:15 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The liberal legacy media’s whining and lying about the latest move by the Trump White House to expand access to all outlets is receiving a strong pushback from advocates of having a more representative press corps cover the administration.
Written up by liberal outlets such as the New York Times as an erosion of access, the plan announced Tuesday by spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt will expand those in the White House Press pool, opening the closed club of “elite” outlets to more than just members of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
The regulars are also balking at the White House deciding pool members, not them, calling it an unprecedented affront to press freedom inside the president’s media bubble.
White House @PressSec Karoline Leavitt is giving more reporters more access to President Donald Trump, who is already one of the most accessible world leaders.
Proponents of the changes are responding to the criticisms, noting that the public is now getting more of its news from alternative outlets like those Leavitt wants included in the pool.
They are also recalling that while Trump’s team is opening up the media allowed in, both former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden tightened media control and even threatened reporters.
Cygnal pollster Brent Buchanan, for example, cited new data that showed many voters don’t get their information from the old media that makes up the press pool like they once did.
“The emerging electorate isn’t tuned into mainstream media,” Buchanan said.
“Over 60% of voters under age 55 get their news from a social media source. Over a third of black and Hispanic voters turn to YouTube. For men under 55, 20% are listening to podcasts and 25% getting news from X,” he said.
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More to the point, compel them to argue why they should be thought of as unbiased and impartial.
Leavitt is exactly correct: Legacy media’s news-inventing is 30 to 100 years behind the times and wants to stay there.
Eff em. High, hard, and continuously.
I guess the liberal mainstream media is against affirmative action after all. It’s all whose ox is getting gored.
Push them to the back of the pack...
These same folks in the 90s said internet /alternative media was not the future but a fad.
I think Trump and Leavitt should occasionally take a question or two fromopen hard left operations, the Nation, Mother Jones, The Guardian. They are open about who they are, and we are not afraid of their questions. However, the New Republic is to blahhh to get a hearing, and the formerly erudite Atlantic now scoresan unearned 11 onthe smug scale.
Yeah the people get to hear exactly what trump says, not some liberal edited snip
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