Posted on 09/21/2026 1:31:49 PM PDT by Vendome
The White House will oversee news outlets that will become part of the White House press, not the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.
The WHCA has customary authority to choose a rotation of news outlets that can access oval offices and other regions with limited access, but the Trump administration has overturned that policy.
Qualified White House presses have dropped from 1,417 members to 975 members after the White House announced new standards requiring annual renewals for hard passes, Politicico reported in 2023.
The Biden White House also made changes to the White House press squad, with hundreds of reporters losing passes. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Leavitt announced in January that the Trump White House would work to “recover the media passes of 440 journalists that were accidentally revoked by the previous administration.”
On Tuesday, Leavitt said the White House decision was intended to “empower people” to ensure that “all journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table.”
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The WHCA has customary authority to choose a rotation of news outlets that can access oval offices and other regions with limited access, but the Trump administration has overturned that policy.
Qualified White House presses have dropped from 1,417 members to 975 members after the White House announced new standards requiring annual renewals for hard passes, Politico reported in 2023.
The Biden White House also made changes to the White House press squad, with hundreds of reporters losing passes. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Leavitt announced in January that the Trump White House would work to “recover the media passes of 440 journalists that were accidentally revoked by the previous administration.”
On Tuesday, Leavitt said the White House decision was intended to “empower people” to ensure that “all journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table.”
Yeah but you see Breitbart reporters don’t have a first amendment right like CNN reporters have.
So did obama.....Mike Gallagher played a audio clip today. That a-hole targeted Fox directly.
So the liberal media can kiss my crack.
“..The Biden White House also made changes to the White House press squad, with hundreds of reporters losing passes...”
But... but... That’s different! Slo-Joe, Mr. AutoPen, had the prestigeous, highly-coveted, higly-esteemed, official communist “D” after his name...so yeah. That’s different.
And...and... all the AWFLs loved old “lunch-pail” Joe as he was like their harmless grandfather... Grampa wouldn’t do any thing wrong!!!
and....and... He is the father of ‘Humper”. What AWFL worth her salt wouldn’t wanna “play” with Humper??...
And... and..... the Corvette...yeah, that’s it! The Corvette. No Corvette owner would ever do anything wrong....
So there’s all of that!! It’s different than that mean old Trump. /S
There it is.
Fox shows who they have become . They also will not show Trump anymore
Fox shows who they have become . They also will not show Trump anymore
Yeah, but women just look for any reason to justify their hatred of Trump and Republicans.
CNN tried to blacklist Fox in 2021.
Fox is not only a back stabber. It’s stupid.
Half of them have IQ’s under 100.
The bloods in the water. The lamestream media and press who have built them selves up as the arbiters of truth have because of there own lapses in morals and character have painted huge targets on there backs, the 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation, the suits against the view and many many others.
I said it before and I will say it again.
We need the FCC to enforce truth and accuracy in reporting, edit as you wish but that editing must be noted and the full text, full video must be available for review. Corrections or miss statements MUST be given the same amount of play as the WRONG or INCORRECT statements or videos when broadcast be it 10 minutes, 20 minutes 30 minutes if the media source trumped it MUST be one to one.
If they the media did a 1 hour broadcast that was wrong, incorrect or lies then they must do a second broadcast of 1 hour at the same time slot explaining that they were wrong, incorrect or had lied.
A large banner should be run at the bottom of any video STATING that the SOURCE in unnamed, unverified, if an audio broadcast the statement should be made at the start, at the mode and at the end.
If any of this is not done then the FCC should fine and or remove, suspend broadcast licenses. Keep pushing wrong, incorrect or lies and have your broadcast right removed.
We have truth in advertising laws why no accuracy in reporting laws? There should be no editing or exerting with out posting the entire text or video or audio and if the is no confirmation and the source in unknown or not named. That should be at the beginning and end of that report. If a photo is cropped the original should be also available for review. For to long the public has been denied the full information, the full story and unfortunately as it has been shown time and time again. The news media’s take on events can no longer be taken at face value because of paid, yes paid partisan behavior and down right bias. Does the media as a whole need to be held to a much higher standard?
DAM RIGHT!
Pffft. We all know that’s (D)ifferent!
Faux News is just as corrupt as the Commie News Network (CNN).
Faux News is just as corrupt as the Commie News Network (CNN).
Well, that bottom line of theirs will need to be fed eventually....
It actually was. In the interest of accuracy 440 chose not to renew their access. They still maintained day passes they could sign up for. No one was banned.
Problem solved?
Aug 6 - Donald Trump Vows To Hunt Down ‘Leakers’ Saying US Running Out of Missiles
Whats ironic is that the Biden Administration would hand pick journalists to call on and write the questions for them in advance so that Biden could just read off what he’s supposed to say and they were fine with it
My Mom watches The Five, they mentioned Trump throughout their broadcast today, but thats run by Gutfeld he likes Trump and wont take the Fox News BS
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