{"id":1534274,"date":"2022-06-30T23:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534274"},"modified":"2022-06-30T23:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T03:49:30","slug":"press-corps-has-had-it-with-biden-white-house-continued-efforts-to-limit-access-to-the-president-cannot-be-defended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/press-corps-has-had-it-with-biden-white-house-continued-efforts-to-limit-access-to-the-president-cannot-be-defended\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Corps Has Had It With Biden White House: \u2018Continued Efforts To Limit Access To The President Cannot Be Defended\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpress-corps-has-had-it-with-biden-white-house-continued-efforts-to-limit-access-to-the-president-cannot-be-defended%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534274&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House Press Corps unloaded on President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, complaining about the \u201cahistoric\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-biden-straight-up-ignores-reporters-questions-calmly-shuffles-papers-instead\/\">lack of access<\/a> to the president and revealing that they were being required to fill out request forms to gain entry into areas that previous administrations had freely allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The Corps shared their grievances on Thursday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/KARINEFINALEDITEDA.docx-2.pdf\">letter<\/a> addressed to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, demanding that the White House stop <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/curl-bidens-use-of-cheat-sheets-to-answer-media-questions-should-terrify-america\/\">limiting reporters\u2019 access<\/a> and making it clear that it was not their first such request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe once again respectfully request the Biden administration \u2013 without exception-re-open all of the traditional venues for presidential remarks at the White House, including the East Room and the South Court Auditorium, for any reporter admitted to the White House campus,\u201d the letter began. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter mentioned the fact that some of the restrictions had been put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID, but that when other things had returned to normal, the White House had continued to limit press access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continued inability of the White House to be candid and transparent about the selection process for reporters attending his remarks undermines President Biden\u2019s credibility when he says he is a defender of the First Amendment \u2026\u00a0The incongruity 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\u2019t want asked,\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>The letter concluded by saying that members of the Press Corps understood that the president and his administration might not always like them or the questions they asked, but it was their job to allow access \u2014 and they noted that even former President Trump, who was often criticized for being hostile to reporters, had given freer access to the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us be candid. Our job is not to be liked, nor is it to be concerned about whether or not you like what we ask. Reporters\u2019 ability to question the most powerful man in our government shouldn\u2019t be discretionary.\u00a0The administration\u2019s continued efforts to limit access to the president cannot be defended. Any notion that space is \u2018limited\u2019 is not supported by the fact that every other president before Biden (including Trump) allowed full access to the very same spaces without making us fill out a request form prior to admittance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was drafted by Salon\u2019s Brian Karem and signed by over 60 members of the Press Corp \u2014 including CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins, CBS\u2019 Ed O\u2019Keefe, Jacqui Heinrich and Kevin Corke from Fox News, and WH Press Correspondents Association President Steven Portnoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Press Corps unloaded on President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, complaining about the \u201cahistoric\u201d lack of access to the president and revealing that they were being required to fill out request forms to gain entry into areas that previous administrations had freely allowed. The Corps shared their grievances on Thursday in a letter addressed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1534282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}