The White House press pool became a way to control journalists – Trump is taking this to new levels
The work of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in exposing the Watergate scandal during the 1970s is often held up as the gold standard of watchdog journalism. It ultimately led to the resignation of Richard Nixon as president and the imprisonment of his lawyer, John Dean.
The White House will decide which media outlets participate in the presidential press pool, it announced Tuesday in a break from a century of tradition in which the White House ...
The Trump administration has also taken a more public approach in expressing opposition to media coverage. White House press ...
Shear has covered the White House for 16 years. The White House announced on Tuesday that it was seizing control of the press pool covering President Trump, becoming the first ...
Peter Baker, a veteran journalist and former Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, compared the White House’s decision ...
Given the expense of traveling with the president, Trump’s efforts to replace mainstream outlets with far-right media may ...
President Donald Trump restricted the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One in February. Now, he’s found the perfect replacement: Nickelodeon. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ...
The Associated Press emphasized that the White House ban on its access to presidential events extends beyond pool ...
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