White House press corps demands end to Biden event restrictions

68 journalists protest

• 68 journalists signed a protest letter to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asking that President Biden's staff abandon a mysterious pre-screening process and reopen large events to all journalists.
• "The current method of allowing a limited number of reporters into these events is not only restrictive and antithetical to the concept of a free press, but it has been done without any transparent process into how reporters are selected to cover these events," the letter says.

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• Veteran journalists and press officers previously noted the exceptional change in the treatment of large events in the East Room and the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s auditorium.
• Over the past year, reporters were given a wide range of conflicting explanations of how the selection for events works, causing frustrations to mount.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/white-house-press-corps-demands-end-to-biden-event-restrictions/