White House to select news outlets for Donald Trump coverage

The White House to select news outlets for The President. On Tuesday it will select the media members covering President Trump, shifting control from the long-standing journalist group. Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt confirmed traditional media can still report but noted changes in participation for the press pool, which covers events in limited spaces like the Oval Office.

“For decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore,” Leavitt said at a news briefing.

“Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team,” she said, referring to White House staff.

This is war of information, control by any means necessary.

The end of the Freedom of the Press

The White House said on Tuesday it would decide which media organisations participate in the press pool that covers the president, wresting control away from the group of journalists that has done so for decades.

Karoline Leavitt, President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, said that while traditional media organisations would still be allowed to cover the president, the administration plans to change who participates. The pool system allows select television, radio, wire, print and photojournalists to cover events in smaller spaces such as the Oval Office and share their reporting with the broader media.

White House to select news outlets for Donald Trump coverage

The move follows the Trump administration’s decision to bar the Associated Press from being in the press pool because it has declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, the name Trump has assigned the body of water, or update its widely followed stylebook to reflect such a change.