White House Journalists Demand End to Biden Admin’s ‘Restrictive’ Prescreening of Reporters

White House Journalists Demand End to Biden Admin’s ‘Restrictive’ Prescreening of Reporters
President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 19, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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Sixty-eight White House journalists signed a letter to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asking to end the prescreening of reporters who are allowed into President Joe Biden’s events, calling the rules “antithetical to the concept of a free press.”

“The current method of allowing a limited number of reporters into these events is not only restrictive and antithetical to the concept of a free press, but it has been done without any transparent process into how reporters are selected to cover these events,” the letter, dated June 30, reads.
Jack Phillips
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