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Anyone wondering when — or if — CNN would stop breaking into regular programming to show the daily media briefing by White House press secretary Sean Spicer now has an answer: Day 36 of the Donald Trump presidency.

But the streak of televised briefings did not end because the cable channel finally decided they are no longer breaking news events. (Not every day, anyway.) The streak ended because the White House decided to prohibit cameras from Friday's session.

What's more, the White House barred news outlets, such as CNN, the New York Times, Politico and the Los Angeles Times, from entering the room. The Washington Post did not have a reporter present, at the time.




CNN's Sara Murray went on air to describe what happened:

We lined up. We were told there was a list ahead of time, which is sort of abnormal, but we put our name on a list. And then when we went to enter, I was blocked by a White House staffer, who said we were not on the list for this gaggle today.

Now, normally, if you were going to do something like this — an extended gaggle, off camera — you would have one person from each news outlet. As you know, we have multiple people from CNN here every day. So, if you're going to do something beyond a pool, which is sort of the smallest group of reporters that then disseminates the information, you would have one person from every news outlet.

That is not what the White House was doing today. What the White House was doing was handpicking the outlets they wanted in for this briefing. So Breitbart, the Washington Times, the One America News Network — news outlets that maybe the White House feels are more favorable were all allowed in, whereas I was blocked from entering, Politico was blocked from entering, the New York Times, the L.A. Times. All of these news outlets were blocked from going to a gaggle.

White House Correspondents' Association President Jeff Mason called in to CNN to say the organization is “still getting information about” the decision, adding:

They clearly wanted to have a gaggle that was not on camera and was not the full press corps today. We don't object to there being briefings like that that aren't always on camera, but we have encouraged them when they want to do something like that … [to] still do it in the press room and do it in a place where all the reporters have a chance to ask questions.

So, we've made that clear, and we're going to continue to have discussions with them about that. And we're not happy about how this happened today.



White House deputy communications director Raj Shah insisted this was all much ado about nothing.


But New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet declared that “nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties.”


BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith, whose outlet also was excluded, added this: "While we strongly object to the White House's apparent attempt to punish news outlets whose coverage it does not like, we won't let these latest antics distract us from continuing to cover this administration fairly and aggressively."

Hours before the limited-access gaggle, Trump devoted much of an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference to bashing the media.

“A few days ago, I called the fake news media the enemy of the people, and they are,” the president said. “They are the enemy of the people.”

Fox News anchor Bret Baier quickly discouraged gloating on the right, noting that his network's rivals showed solidarity when the Obama White House tried to freeze out Fox News eight years ago.


In 2009, the Obama administration attempted to exclude Fox News from a round of TV interviews with “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg. Jake Tapper (then of ABC, now of CNN) stood up for one of his network's “sister organizations” during a press briefing.

“Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?” Tapper asked Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary at the time.


Rival networks refused to conduct interviews with Feinberg unless Fox News was granted one, too.



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He should have done this from day one. Good for him.

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Will he ban MSNBC and PBS as well?

CNN, The New York Times, Politico, and the LA Times are nothing more than an extension of the Democrat Party posing as unbiased news sources. I hope the Trump administration continues these bans.

So basically fairfax underground is blocked only because a handful of ignorant libtards ruined it for the rest of us.

Way to go, assholes!

#0 was not born in this country - BORN IN INDIA - and has made a b-line to USA communists and getting bank access to funnel money TO INDIA

#1 i've never heard of a white house deputy commissioner - it's not a city - it sounds contrived BY OBAMA or even after him by raj himself

#2 Hillary and Obama "swore in Raj Shah", not Donald Trump. SERVED AS AN USAID - an agency that gives foreign countries USA taxpayer MONEY

#2b Raj Shah also served on another usa agency that gave USA medical taxpayer money to foreign countries

#2c MONEY DOCTOR MONEY FOUNDATION MONEY AGENCY MONEY AGENCY AND MORE - USA TO INDIA - OUR LOSS. i somehow doubt he ever served his patients well and think it's HIGHLY LIKELY he got usa school loans and got in a practice (bought a practice) using taxpayer money - which is disputable in court as "illegal" (i can't tell you how many denizen USA doctors in the 80's told me they were hoping to be able to afford a practice damn it !!! )

#3 I don't believe Wikipedia, CNN, or anyone saying Raj Shah is a "deputy whitehouse commissioner, Wikipedia continually has incorrect foreign news and false news by democrats - it's edited by the worst of the worst trolls - such as Microsoft editing Linux "history and articles".

Oh did we forget Raj Shah ALSO HAS TIES TO MICROSOFT - AKA MICROSOFT NBC TOO - THE ASSHOLES TRUMP JUST BANNED (a day)

#4 Obama didn't leave any republicans on his whitehouse staff

How a hindu Raj Shah came to be president of the Rockerfeller foundation is another matter - and i suspect it's wholey a CRIMINAL MATTER of steering a dead man's funds outside of the USA (which is highly illegal and would come with jail time).

NICE TRY OP and WIKIPEDIA - WE DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE YOU

#5 both George Bush and Obama complained those daily media sessions had gotten out of control. Donald Trump didn't warn about it: he did something about it.

uh, democrat - $10 trillion much on democrats === balanced budget, true or false ? DUH.

if there's one thing discovered on the Hill and in Florida - it's that Doctors can be some of the worst scammers - ESPECIALLY foreign doctors

by Raj Shah - and if the door slaps you back while your leaving dont say no one told you doors did that

doors work two ways, you know

eat that mother fucking OP

Bill Clinton began the "tradition" of political firings in agencies. People (ie, fed workers) sued him saying it was illegal. they called him "Slick Bill" - he got away with it.

Obama most certainly continued it, and added racial and illegal hires to that. Obama found out he could deregulate everything only where it favored communism - he got away with it.

Trump would be a fool not to give them the same medicine they've been forcing upon others

fire him - as obama did republicans

some of THE WORST people who've harmed others: doctors in Florida, doctors who gave up medicine to be in politics. this clearly says to me - i have zero empathy for mere titles, i have a VERY watchful eye of turf wars (ie, use of USA taxpayer money to take turf in usa and abroad)

code of journalistic ethics
society of proffesional journalists since 1909

absolutely taught in schools in the 70's, 80's and 90's - when these reporters went to school

and don't fucking forget it

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Not PBS, they are respectable and cite real sources,

And not soon after Trump bashed the press for using unnamed sources, saying they should always release names, the White House had a background press briefing, meaning no sources could be identified other than the customary "according to a White House official". Hypocrites.

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I don't think Anderson Cooper's ever going to be done being a little faggot.

I love this president!!!!

Those news networks are just another arm of the anti American hate group known as the DNC just as the KKK was and BLM is now.
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Won't miss them.