Posted on 11/10/2016 11:03:44 AM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.
Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.
Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.
Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.
News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.
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Oh, cry me a river Kathleen. What tripe. Go clean up your own media house. You all acted like scum this entire cycle and now you’re upset that you aren’t getting a platinum invitation on the private jet. Please.
Trump has had to fight an all out war since the inception of his campaign.
I applaud this move.
HOWEVER, Please have your own photographer there so people who helped you get elected can see what is going on. All of this is historic.
Brady, not baker. ‘scuse me.
“...a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation’s leader...”
The only “eye” the press has kept on the nation’s leader for the last eight years has been blind....
Ah, yes! Now I remember. Wasn't that Obama's answer to any Republican request to be included in the policy discussions? "I won?"
I’m lovin’ it too!
Gee, has anyone suggested Right Side Broadcasting to the Trump team, what a boost that would be.
Too, what about the “protocol” of a sitting president actively campaigning?
I wish he would make RSBN his press pool!!! That would be a HOOT!!!!
They’re called presstitutes fer a reason...
Why work with the enemy?
Yahoo News?
Yahoo sent me four to ten “news updates” to my smartphone every day for the last two months that were outright attacks on Trump.
I want to transfer my email accounts to gmail, but I know the Google people are just as liberal and their chairman wanted to be Clinton adviser.
This move by Trump is a great start! The people have spoken!
The Press has forgotten basic Journalism. The 5 W’s and an H.
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
They have been editorializing and spinning so long, they have forgotten the basics.
Report the News and do so Truthfully.
We are. And pround of the moniker.
I no longer call them the MSM or LSM. They are now "the irrelevants".
Good, Trump recognizes the ememy.
He ain’t no dumb bush.
I hope he leaves Obama with plenty to consider for the next couple months. I am really worried about what that demon Obama is going to do.
This gave me goosebumps when Fox just showed it.
“journalists”
Ha!
Good one.
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