Letter from @rcfp urging the White Home to revive the AP’s entry, citing the First Amendmemt. 30+ information organizations signed on in assist pic.twitter.com/hngsvQGQfx
— Liam Scott (@liamjscott) February 20, 2025
Coming collectively to assist a competitor’s entry to a selected administration just isn’t new for media retailers. Again in 2009, the printed and cable information retailers stood in assist of Fox Information after Barack Obama’s administration wished to maintain the information community out of the press pool when it provided an interview with Kenneth Feinberg of the Treasury Division.
In 2018, journalists and the WHCA got here to CNN’s protection after the primary Trump administration banned former White Home reporter and anchor Jim Acosta after a contentious press briefing. Acosta obtained an indefinite ban, which barred him from setting foot on the White Home grounds.
Former president of the WHCA, Oliver Knox, launched an announcement at the moment saying, “Revoking entry to the White Home complicated is a response out of line to the purported offense and is unacceptable.”
CNN instantly sued the White Home, and Acosta’s entry to the complicated was quickly restored.
