{"id":496967,"date":"2021-05-11T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496967"},"modified":"2021-05-11T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:06:22","slug":"potential-mutinying-white-house-press-corps-fume-over-biden-administrations-extra-control-over-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/potential-mutinying-white-house-press-corps-fume-over-biden-administrations-extra-control-over-media-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential \u2018Mutinying?\u2019: White House Press Corps Fume Over Biden Administration\u2019s \u2018Extra Control\u2019 Over Media Coverage"},"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\">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%2Fpotential-mutinying-white-house-press-corps-fume-over-biden-administrations-extra-control-over-media-coverage%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=496967&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232809840.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The White House Press Corps is frustrated with the Biden administration\u2019s requirement that all quotes used in press pieces receive approval before publication.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2021\/05\/10\/this-email-is-on-background-with-quote-approval-492792\">POLITICO<\/a>, the White House communications team must have the \u201copportunity to edit\u201d what administration officials say in quotes used in a story. It\u2019s a term that\u2019s been dubbed \u201cbackground with quote approval,\u201d something that at least five reporters from various outlets, outside of POLITICO, confirmed to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn practice, that means the information from an interview can be used in the story, but in order for the person\u2019s name to be attached to a quote, the reporter must transcribe the quotes they want and then send them to the communications team to approve, veto or edit them,\u201d the outlet explained.<\/p>\n<p>The practice reportedly took place under the Obama and Trump administrations, although \u201cTrump\u2019s team did so less frequently than Biden\u2019s team.\u201d It\u2019s a practice that has left the White House Press Corps fuming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rule treats them like coddled Capitol Hill pages and that\u2019s not who they are or the protections they deserve,\u201d one reporter told POLITICO. \u201cThe only way the press has the power to push back against this is if we all band together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave any reporters talked about mutinying?\u201d another reporter told the outlet. \u201cIf you start fomenting an insurrection, keep me updated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outlets such as the Associated Press and The New York Times said they have pushed back on the use of quote approval. The goal behind conducting interviews on background, according to multiple outlets, is to eventually \u201cnegotiate\u201d using some of the quotes on the record.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s absolutely unconscionable that the White House or any other political figure would say they have to have a direct say in what\u2019s written or how it\u2019s written. The goal of the media is to be a watchdog for the American people. When things like quote approval take place, confidence in the media \u2013 although it\u2019s already low \u2013 plummet even further.<\/p>\n<p>Giving the subject a say in what\u2019s covered or how it\u2019s covered takes away the independence that reporters are\u00a0<em>supposed\u00a0<\/em>to have. It not only blurs the lines between government officials and news outlets but can also construe an administration\u2019s take as facts. The watchdog function goes out the window and the media becomes nothing more than a propaganda arm for whoever they are working with.<\/p>\n<p>We need to move away from background interviews and the continual use of \u201canonymous sources.\u201d There are times when rather big stories rely on anonymous sources and they later turn out to be completely false. It happened as recently as March when news outlets were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/news-outlets-issue-major-corrections-after-botching-reports-on-december-phone-call-between-trump-ga-election-investigator\">forced to issue corrections<\/a> based on initial reports by CNN and The Washington Post that claimed Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office to \u201cfind the fraud\u201d in the 2020 election. Audio recordings proved the claim false.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Press Corps is frustrated with the Biden administration\u2019s requirement that all quotes used in press pieces receive approval before publication.According to POLITICO, the White House communications team &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277829,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232809840.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Potential \u2018Mutinying?\u2019: White House Press Corps Fume Over Biden Administration\u2019s \u2018Extra Control\u2019 Over Media Coverage","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232809840.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Potential \u2018Mutinying?\u2019: White House Press Corps Fume Over Biden Administration\u2019s \u2018Extra Control\u2019 Over Media Coverage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496967","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=496967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}