{"id":1536219,"date":"2022-07-02T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536219"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:04:39","slug":"white-house-reporters-demand-end-to-biden-admins-restrictive-prescreening-of-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-reporters-demand-end-to-biden-admins-restrictive-prescreening-of-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Reporters Demand End to Biden Admin&#039;s &#8220;Restrictive&#8221; Prescreening of Reporters"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwhite-house-reporters-demand-end-to-biden-admins-restrictive-prescreening-of-reporters%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=1536219&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>Sixty-eight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> journalists signed a letter to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asking to end the\u00a0prescreening of reporters who are allowed into President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s events, calling the rules \u201cantithetical to the concept of a free press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/580596661\/White-House-press-corps-demands-end-to-Biden-event-restrictions#download&#038;from_embed\">the letter<\/a>, dated June 30, reads.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins, CBS News\u2019s Ed O\u2019Keefe, the New York Times\u2019s Maggie Haberman, Axios\u2019s Johnathan Swan, Newsmax\u2019s James Rosen, the Washington Examiner\u2019s Christian Datoc, Fox News\u2019 Jacqui Heinrich, and Fox\u2019s Kevin Corke were among those who signed the letter, which was backed by the leaders of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association. Former ABC anchor\u00a0Sam Donaldson and dozens of others also signed it.<\/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,\u201d the letter continues to say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incongruity,\u201d it adds, \u201cof 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 to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Unclear<\/h2>\n<p>When she was asked about the selection process for events featuring Biden, Jean-Pierre told reporters last month that \u201cI actually don\u2019t know\u201d although she denied the White House was \u201cblacklisting\u201d anyone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4560616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/27\/GettyImages-1397595939-1200x800-1-1200x800-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4560616\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/27\/GettyImages-1397595939-1200x800-1-1200x800-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on May 16, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>In June, Jean-Pierre was asked by a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/16\/wh-denies-blacklisting-media-but-cant-explain-lack-of-access-to-biden-events\/\">New York Post<\/a> reporter if the White House vetting process has \u201cmorphed into a bit of a blacklist\u201d for certain reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I look into this?\u201d Jean-Pierre eventually said. \u201cBecause I actually don\u2019t know what you\u2019re\u2014the process that you\u2019re speaking of. I think blacklisting is a very strong word to use. We have been, you know \u2026 we try to make sure to do our best to make sure that the press gets to hear from the president directly. It is important for us. It is important for you all, it\u2019s important for the American people. And so that has been a priority. So let me look into this process that you\u2019re speaking of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Months before that, former press secretary and current MSNBC employee Jen Psaki was asked a similar question to which she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/10\/22\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-october-22-2021\/\">replied<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t have any more information on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted the White House for comment on the letter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-eight White House journalists signed a letter to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asking to end the\u00a0prescreening of reporters who are allowed into President Joe Biden\u2019s events, calling the rules \u201cantithetical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1536219","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\/1536219","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}