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White house limits access from news agencies
Donald Trump has excluded the AP several times – now other agencies no longer have a place in the White House. Previously, a reporter association had control.
According to media reports, the White House limits the access of news agencies to US President Donald Trump via the so-called correspondent pool. Previously, the US news agency Associated Press (AP) had already been excluded from events in the Oval Office in the White House-even after a different judicial instruction.
Representatives of news agencies – usually AP, Reuters and Bloomberg – should no longer have places in the pool. Instead, these should rotate rotating to print or agency journalists. This was announced by Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday (local time), as the “New York Times” reported. Leavitt therefore also reserved the last decision on the occupation of the pool.
Pool important for reporting on US presidents
In the United States, the President is accompanied by the pool – a group of reporters – in public appearances. As a rule, television, radio, print media, news portals and agencies are represented. The selected reporters then share their information with the other colleagues-an important pillar for all journalists who report on the US President.
An AP spokeswoman said in a message that the agency was deeply disappointed that the government had chosen restrictions against all news agencies instead of restoring the access of the AP.
A federal court had instructed the White House last week to grant AP again to the Oval Office, to the presidential machine Air Force One and other areas, even if they are also open to other journalists. The government, on the other hand, went into appeal. The background is the refusal of the AP to use the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico into “Golf of America” in its reporting.
Reporter association speaks of retaliation
The independent reporter association of the White House (WHCA) criticized in a message: “Today’s changes to the press pool show that the White House only uses a new means to do the same thing: to practice retaliation to news organizations for reporting that does not like the white house.” So far, the WHCA has had sovereignty over the correspondent pool. In February, however, Leavitt announced that the White House took control over it.
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