Showing posts with label press credentials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label press credentials. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Info Wars now has White House press credentials. Sorry, this is NOT fake news.

Courtesy of Business Insider:

Far-right website InfoWars was granted temporary White House press credentials on Monday. 

Jerome Corsi, the Washington, DC bureau chief for the site that's known for its propagation of conspiracy theories about the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Sandy Hook shooting, tweeted a picture of himself inside the White House press briefing room.

This was only a day pass but Info Wars is applying for a permanent one, and let's face it they will probably get it.

This is how Senator Chris Murphy responded to this news.
Trump feels he is under constant assault from the more fact friendly media, so allowing Info Wars in the room to ask if they have found Hillary Clinton's alien love child in the West Wing yet will undoubtedly be seen as a welcome change.

Besides it's not like there is not a precedent already set: 

A number of right-wing reporters and outlets have attended recent White House press briefings. The Gateway Pundit has frequently dispatched a reporter specifically to troll the White House press corps.

Well if you have a clown living in the White House why not turn the press briefings into a circus? 

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Breitbart News denied congressional press passes.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Breitbart News was stymied once again on Tuesday in its efforts to secure press credentials on Capitol Hill. 

The standing committee of correspondents of the U.S. Senate Daily Press Gallery, a panel of journalists that determines which news organizations should receive congressional press passes, voted to table Breitbart's bid for permanent passes and to discontinue the right-wing outlet's temporary credentials without an extension. 

Breitbart's temporary credentials expire on May 31. 

Laura Lytle, the director of the Senate Press Gallery, said that Breitbart's application was tabled until the outlet "can sufficiently demonstrate that they meet the requirements of Rule 4 of the Congressional rules governing the Gallery." 

One part of that rule says, "Applicants' publications must be editorially independent of any institution, foundation or interest group that lobbies the federal government, or that is not principally a general news organization."

Well clearly Breitbart does not meet those criteria.

They are a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump.

However since Steve Bannon is still skulking around the White House somewhere there still exists the possibility that Breitbart will eventually get those credentials. 

And on that day it will signify yet another stake through the heart of American journalism.