{"id":1875614,"date":"2023-03-13T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/african-journalist-kicked-out-of-white-house-correspondents-association-alleges-it-has-a-double-standard\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:16:57","slug":"african-journalist-kicked-out-of-white-house-correspondents-association-alleges-it-has-a-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/african-journalist-kicked-out-of-white-house-correspondents-association-alleges-it-has-a-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"African Journalist Kicked out of White House Correspondents Association, Alleges It Has a Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fafrican-journalist-kicked-out-of-white-house-correspondents-association-alleges-it-has-a-double-standard%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=1875614&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--><div>\n<p>A journalist has accused the group that liaises between the White Home and the press corps\u2014the White Home Correspondents Affiliation (WHCA)\u2014of discriminating in opposition to him by kicking him out of the affiliation and having a double commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Ateba, the founder and chief White Home correspondent for Immediately Information Africa, was knowledgeable final week that his membership to the WHCA wouldn&#8217;t be renewed. Members are required to resume their membership as early as Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret to inform you that your application for membership has been declined,\u201d WHCA government director Steven Thomma wrote to Ateba, who&#8217;s from Cameroon, in a letter seen by The Epoch Instances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour application was carefully reviewed by a committee of journalists looking at your listed\u00a0news organization and your assignment based on all of the information you provided and any\u00a0other information they found available,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Thomma famous that the committee \u201cdid not see evidence that [Ateba is] \u2018employed on the editorial staff of a newspaper, periodical, wire service, radio, TV, or other news-gathering organization that reports on the White House\u2019 as required by <a href=\"https:\/\/whca.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WHCA-BY-LAWS-JAN-1-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our by-laws<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Immediately Information Africa has been reporting on the White Home for the reason that Trump administration and Ateba held WHCA affiliate membership between 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Thomma additionally wrote that \u201cthe committee noted repeated instances where your behavior violated the expectations for membership outlined in our bylaws, which have been detailed to you previously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Instances reached out to Thomma for remark. WHCA president Tamara Keith, a White Home correspondent for Nationwide Public Radio, declined to remark to The Epoch Instances.<\/p>\n<p>Ateba has repeatedly feuded with the White Home, particularly press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, Ateba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/psaki-repeatedly-shuts-down-today-news-africa-reporter-for-shouting-questions-about-omicron-at-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shouted questions<\/a> throughout a White Home press briefing in regards to the Biden administration\u2019s journey bans on Botswana, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa because of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In Might 2022, Ateba was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/reporter-who-interrupted-white-house-press-briefing-threatened-with-possible-suspension-expulsion-from-whca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reprimanded<\/a> by the WHCA for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/psaki-white-house-reporters-scold-fellow-correspondent-shouting-through-final-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interrupting<\/a> Jen Psaki\u2019s final day as White Home press secretary. The WHCA threatened him with expulsion.<\/p>\n<p>The next August, Nationwide Safety Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby rebuked Ateba for interrupting a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/im-done-with-you-karine-jean-pierre-blows-up-at-reporter-for-interrupting-colleague-in-explosive-briefing-room-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exploded<\/a> at Ateba saying \u201cI\u2019m done with you\u201d for sticking up for a reporter attempting to ask Anthony Fauci, throughout his remaining White Home press briefing, in regards to the origins of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The WHCA afterward reprimanded him.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Ateba sought to ask a query forward of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit however was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/watch-karine-jean-pierre-shuts-down-entire-briefing-after-reporters-chaotic-badgering-outburst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected<\/a> by Jean-Pierre, who proceeded to storm out of the press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Ateba advised The Epoch Instances that he intends to take authorized motion in opposition to the WHCA. He mentioned his lawyer will write to the affiliation to inform them they&#8217;ve time to reverse their choice or else a lawsuit shall be filed in opposition to them.<\/p>\n<p>Ateba accused the WHCA of a double commonplace in that there have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/04\/29\/the-fall-of-the-white-house-correspondent-00028272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalists throughout the Trump administration<\/a>, together with CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kristine-marsh\/2020\/03\/18\/reporters-scoff-trumps-credibility-leadership-during-virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got here beneath hearth<\/a> for showboating and appearing like activists versus journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Jim Acosta does it, if CNN does it, they believe that those are the people that they should fight for, right?\u201d he mentioned. \u201cThey believe that those people are more important. They believe that those people are worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ateba accused the WHCA, Keith, and Jean-Pierre of getting a superiority advanced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this level of disdain, this level of \u2018I\u2019m better than you. You come from Africa. We\u2019re doing you a favor to be at the White House covering U.S.-Africa relations,\u2019\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Ateba alleged racial discrimination in opposition to him by Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe believes that she\u2019s better than me, right?\u201d he mentioned. \u201cKarine Jean-Pierre, she believes that the other people in the briefing room they\u2019re better than the people who come from Africa, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she talks to a white person, you know, she [believes] that, you know, this [is] a great person. When she talks to me [she feels I\u2019m] an inferior person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ateba accused the WHCA of \u201ccolluding\u201d with Jean-Pierre \u201cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/reporter-accuses-karine-jean-pierre-trying-silence-removal-whca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silence me<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomma\u2019s letter famous that Ateba has publicly mentioned that he doesn&#8217;t obtain a wage, which Thomma mentioned is a violation of WHCA membership guidelines\u2014although such a requirement doesn&#8217;t seem within the WHCA bylaws.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of being denied renewed membership, Ateba has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonateba\/status\/1632062654612111363?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned<\/a> he&#8217;ll proceed to cowl the White Home.<\/p>\n<p>By not having WHCA membership, Ateba won&#8217;t be allowed sure entry together with being a part of the press pool\u2014a small group of journalists protecting the president and different principals on journeys and at sure occasions\u2014and invites to affiliation occasions such because the annual glitzy White Home Correspondents Dinner.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &#8220;Proceed Studying Extra From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/african-journalist-kicked-out-of-white-house-correspondents-association-alleges-it-has-a-double-standard_5114516.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">African Journalist Kicked out of White Home Correspondents Affiliation, Alleges It Has a Double Commonplace<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist has accused the group that liaises between the White House and the press corps\u2014the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA)\u2014of discriminating against him by kicking him out of the association and having a double standard. 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