{"id":636593,"date":"2021-08-12T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=636593"},"modified":"2021-08-12T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:51:36","slug":"no-different-than-donald-trump-white-house-reporters-grouse-about-limited-access-to-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-different-than-donald-trump-white-house-reporters-grouse-about-limited-access-to-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Different Than Donald Trump\u2019: White House Reporters Grouse About Limited Access To Biden"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fno-different-than-donald-trump-white-house-reporters-grouse-about-limited-access-to-biden%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=636593&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\/08\/wh-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden and his team vowed to be far more transparent than their predecessor, but that hasn\u2019t exactly happened.<\/p>\n<p>From limiting who comes into the White House press briefing room to picking and choosing the reporters allowed to cover presidential events, the Biden White House has systematically limited transparency at nearly every turn.<\/p>\n<p>In one recent event held in the 3,000-square-foot White House East Room, \u201chis staff selects which reporters attend, citing \u2018spacing constraints\u2019 for why they exclude most White House correspondents,\u201d the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/11\/wh-journos-roiled-by-spacing-constraints-to-biden-pressers\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[R]eporters interested in attending one of the semi-regular Biden forums must RSVP electronically and then White House staff pick a small number who are allowed to attend alongside the rotating daily press pool,\u201d said the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all baloney. There is no space issue,\u201d reporter Brian Karem, who has covered the White House since the Reagan administration, told the Post. Karem said he has tried to get into each of the eight East Room events held so far, but has been denied. \u201cThis is unprecedented territory. It has never been as restrictive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis president has never made himself available to the open press in an open atmosphere, and the East Room is where those usually occur. This administration is being disingenuous in telling us that there\u2019s limited availability and therefore we can\u2019t get in,\u201d Karem said.<\/p>\n<p>Karem, who has worked for Playboy and been a freelance journalist, said the situation is at least as bad and maybe worse than that under Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is no different than Donald Trump trying to keep people from getting their press pass. They\u2019re just a little more subtle about it. This administration has created another level of access without any type of transparency as to how this is being done,\u201d Karem said. \u201cIt\u2019s inconsistent with the ideals of a free press. They cannot pick and choose who they want to cover them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Correspondents\u2019 Association President Steven Portnoy, a CBS News Radio reporter, openly urged Biden to improve transparency during a July 15 joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to the day we can have even more reporters all the way to the back of the room,\u201d Portnoy told Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, longtime veteran Peter Baker of The New York Times said he doesn\u2019t understand the limits placed on East Room attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the old days (Clinton and Bush 43 for sure, and I think Obama too), any reporter who was in the briefing room when they did the escort could go up\u201d to East Room events, Baker said in an email to the Post. \u201cThe East Room hasn\u2019t shrunk in recent years so it\u2019s hard to imagine why space constraints would suddenly require restricting the number of journalists who cover events there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it raises the question of what they base these decisions on \u2014 is it first-come, first-serve, or are they picking and choosing among reporters or news organizations based on some other criteria? If it\u2019s the latter, that would be potentially troubling.\u201d<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and his team vowed to be far more transparent than their predecessor, but that hasn\u2019t exactly happened.From limiting who comes into the White House press briefing room &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636593","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\/636593","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=636593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636593\/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=636593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}