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As part of his continued press shakeup, President Trump has removed the formerly guaranteed slots for “wire services” like AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg from the White House press pool. What do you think of this decision?
From Fox News. The Associated Press and Reuters released sharply critical statements of the Trump White House this week in response to news that it was cutting traditional wire service slots in the rotating pool.
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“We are deeply disappointed that the administration has chosen to restrict the access of all wire services, whose fast and accurate White House coverage informs billions of people every single day, rather than reinstate The Associated Press to the wire pool,” AP spokesperson Lauren Easton said, according to reports. …
Wire services are outlets like the AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse that provide news reports to news outlet subscribers. It is common to see AP and other wire service stories reprinted in other publications.
The New York Post reported Tuesday that the White House had stripped wire reporters of their guaranteed daily access to the president, following the AP winning in court after being excluded from the press pool for defying the administration’s renaming of the “Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America.” …
Now, the White House will instead set aside a second slot for “print” outlets that also includes wire services, as part of the rotating pool covering Trump for limited-space events, the New York Post reported. It has been traditional for either the AP, Reuters or Bloomberg News to have a guaranteed spot in limited pool events covering the president because of their expansive readerships. …
A White House official shared a memo with Fox News Digital about Leavitt’s criteria for selecting the White House press pool. It consists of one print journalist to serve as the “print pooler,” an additional print journalist, a television network crew (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC), a secondary television network or streaming service, a radio journalist, a “new media” or independent journalist, and four photojournalists.
Wire services like the AP and Reuters will be eligible for selection as part of the daily print journalist rotation, the official said. …
What do you think of this decision? Share your thoughts and prayers below.
(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
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Now is a wonderful moment to point out the signs of a good news source. There are basically three kinds of journalism: news, investigate and opinion.
Basic news should be factual. It should give both sides. It use not use emotionally charged language or make the reader feel that they or someone else or a cause is in immediate danger. It should also give anyone or any organization mentioned a chance to respond to comments about them.
Opinion news is only valuable if the source is someone who is an expert. So, if the opinion piece is about military strategy, an expert in military strategy should be its source or in other words, someone who teaches cadets or a four star general, for example. If about China, it should be someone who has lived in the region, speaks the language and has studied China for decades. If about technology, it should be someone who has spent decades working as a leader in that area. If a news source gives one person’s viewpoint on various topics, day after day, then his or her opinion is not worth anything more than anyone else’s.
Sometimes a news source will interview someone of merit to gain insight into that person’s thinking. That person might be a supreme court justice or someone like Steve Job who might talk about events in his or her life. This is not the same thing as a news source interviewing one person about claims against an organization or a person. A good news source might start an investigation based on one person’s claims but will never post those claims without cross verifying with multiple sources.
The signs of good investigate reporting is that it takes weeks and months of work and is based on cross verification with a significant number of experts as well as documentary evidence. In the case of the break through reporting on a possible lab leak at Wuhan, the person who wrote the Wall Street Journal article interviewed researchers of merit from multiple countries (as many of 15(?)). The author was himself as expert on the DNA of viruses and had written multiple books on the topic.
One sign of questionable reporting is when a reporter allows someone to make claims which are not cross verified while sitting there with a shocked look on his face.
There are good news sources but most of them you have to pay for because quality news requires time and resources. This means that most of conservative and left wing news when it comes to politics are questionable.
Bravo, President Trump!
The fact that these Left bent “reporters” care more about an ILLEGAL, WIFE BEATING GANG MEMBER than ALL THOSE WHO WERE MURDERED, ASSAULTED, AND RAPED AT THE HANDS OF ILLEGALS says it all!!! If they CANNOT, WILL NOT and REFUSE to just report the facts, then YES, they ABSOLUTELY SHOULD LOSE any preferred status in the press room!!! Free speech comes with RESPONSIBILTY and people don’t seem to understand that! Instead of being “reporters, journalists, or news anchors” the Leftist activists should be made to label themselves as “opinionated biased activists”. If you want to be in the news, then you should be held to a higher standard and unbiased on all reporting!
As AP, Reuters and Bloomberg appear to be very biased in their reporting, extremely left leaning, no matter how beneficial so many of this current Administration’s actions are on behalf of the American People, I applaud this decision. If their journalists ever return to a hoped-for midline ideology and present truly unbiased reports about World events, they surely would be reinstated to their privileged position.
I get it… no one wants to continually be bombarded by hate and it’s obvious those news sources hate President Trump. But cutting them off is a form of censoring…. instead, would we not be doing better by banding together in prayer for the CEO’s of those companies to have God bring Holy Spirit filled people into their circle of influence and help them see things from a more Godly perspective so that they come to Jesus who will help them see the world events and the people involved through eyes of truth and love instead of the lies and hate the devil feeds them?
That’s been my prayer for some time… it’d be nice to know others are praying that way also, including the President.
AP & Reuters daily print lies and misrepresentations. This is a good decision
Praise God! Finally some accountability regarding the leftist press! “May they be removed and another (righteous, champion of the truth) take their place!”
I applaud this. They are mot reporting news they are promoting their narrative. This blinds and deceives the unsuspecting.
They need to get rid of all the mainstream media and just televise their meetings to the public. Let the public decide.
I love this president, but I think it is a “slippery slope.” Free speech is even for those we disagree with and this can send a wrong message to independents in the upcoming election. We are losing ground with this group.
I continue to Pray for wisdom and discernment for this president. For the Holy Spirit to guide him and give him “pause” before speaking. To guard his heart, his mind and his tongue. To have all his intentions be pure. For his protection, continued stamina and health. Also,Lord, give him resilience and to know that accusations do not define him- only you do. Be his helper,Lord, as he strives to bring peace and safety to the world- in Jesus name- Amen!
Teresa,
You misunderstand – they are not being denied access, they are losing a favored status that they’ve been given by leftist regimes.
True independents know that these outlets are wholly owned subsidiaries of the the DNC
A full 15 minutes of the latest press conference which lasted 30 minutes, was spent by the press asking all kinds of concerned questions about the illegal m13 immigrant who was deported to El Salvador. This was all on the heels of the day before of a testimony of a mother whose daughter was violently raped and killed by a different illegal immigrant, but an illegal immigrant none the less.
These same press reporters have alluded that this man is ” a father of the year unquote type of person when in reality he is a wife-beater and an illegal immigrant and an m13 gang member. This press also has spent much time in the news making the governor of Maryland seem like some kind of compassionate hero for going to El Salvador and trying to retrieve this man at the objection of El Salvador’s own president!
In my opinion every single one of those reporters should be banned from the White House for the next 4 years. This is insufferable and intolerable.
Personally I feel like the Trump team has been way too nice to these reporters.
Amen totally agree
It’s very simple. No president should have to tolerate liars in his press pool. If they’re unwilling to report facts, they don’t belong there.
The change in behavior on the part of the reporting and the reporters if such change does indeed occur, can be easily gauged by the words used to write up stories about President Trump and what he is doing. I would expect that the individual journalists would check themselves to be sure they are not writing from spite, or worse, a hatred of America.
Though I like what he is doing and agree that it will help to have more accurate news, we have to think about the future. If this is what Trump does now how can there be any fair reporting in the future if the next administration is Democrat? Won’t they do the same thing and start eliminating conservative media voices?
Of course ! But the alternative is to openly admit defeat every time distorted LIES are promoted – as has been the practice for the past two or three decades !
The time has come for decency and truth to be rewarded and lies and falsifications punished ! That’s what every decent, honest country tries to achieve. America should now champion the same as she now once again has a decent hard-working man in The White House.
The same cannot be claimed for all the “Courts” in the USA who very openly demonstrate their lack of impartiality outrageously on a daily basis !
From the Island of Guam, a U.S. Territory in the Western Pacific: While there has been long standing practices for many functions and operations in government, it is right and just to determine what is the Truth in making decision or in deciding what to do about addressing concerns, issues, criticism, needs and problems. Therefore, it is imperative to publicly establish principles, values, public laws, rules and regulations, on the basis of the Judeo-Christian worldview. This is what I pray for.
I have no problem with limiting any press service that has after a news session at the White House distorted the truth.