White House Journalists Demand End to Biden Admin’s ‘Restrictive’ Prescreening of Reporters

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Sixty-eight White House journalists signed a letter to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asking to end the prescreening of reporters who are allowed into President Joe Biden’s events, calling the rules “antithetical to the concept of a free press.”

“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, dated June 30, reads.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, CBS News’s Ed O’Keefe, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman, Axios’s Johnathan Swan, Newsmax’s James Rosen, the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc, Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, and Fox’s Kevin Corke were among those who signed the letter, which was backed by the leaders of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Former ABC anchor Sam Donaldson and dozens of others also signed it.

“The continued inability of the White House to be candid and transparent about the selection process for reporters attending his remarks undermines President Biden’s credibility when he says he is a defender of the First Amendment,” the letter continues to say.

“The incongruity,” it adds, “of these restrictions underscores the belief by many reporters that the administration seeks to limit access to the president by anyone outside of the pool, or anyone who might ask a question the administration doesn’t want to answer.”

Unclear

When she was asked about the selection process for events featuring Biden, Jean-Pierre told reporters last month that “I actually don’t know” although she denied the White House was “blacklisting” anyone.

In June, Jean-Pierre was asked by a New York Post reporter if the White House vetting process has “morphed into a bit of a blacklist” for certain reporters.

By Jack Phillips

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