Thursday, July 26, 2018

Exclusion of CNN reporter is press censorship pure and simple

Even Trump lackeys Fox News has joined in the blanket condemnation of the White House's banning on a CNN reporter from a White House briefing that was supposedly open to all media.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins has been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration from day one. But, when she was told by White House staffers Sarah Sanders and Bill Shine that she was being excluded from an important press briefing with Trump and EU head Jean-Claude Junckers, CNN other media outlets called foul. The explanation for the exclusion was that Ms. Collins had asked "inappropriate" questions at a previous press meeting with Mr. Trump and M. Juncker. In addition to the complaints of press censorship by various media companies, the White House Correspondents Association also issued a strongly-worded condemnation.
Trump would dearly love to muzzle CNN, which has been almost obsessively critical of his administration, but press censorship is not the way to go about it.

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