In announcing plans to hand-select the reporters who can ask the president questions at many events, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would start handpicking which media outlets were allowed to participate in the presidential press pool, the small, rotating group of reporters who relay the president’s day-to-day activities to the public.
The change breaks decades of precedent. It allows the White House to assert more control over which journalists can witness his activities up-close and ask him questions.
That sub headline is something else. What the New York Times fails to tell you is that when a countries leader limits access to only friendly media outlets it lays the groundwork for disinformation and propaganda. Its also one step closer to having an authoritarian government.
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