Announces New Plans to Expand Press Pool to New Media
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced today that the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) will no longer hold its iron grip over deciding which outlets get a seat in the coveted White House press pool.
“This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one,” Leavitt said, noting, “that’s what we were elected to do.”
“A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House,” she added in reference to the White House Correspondents’ Association.
She said the WHCA “has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces,” but “not anymore.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Associated Press asked a federal judge to grant an emergency Temporary Restraining Order against the Trump Administration and restore its access to areas in the White House after the far-left outlet was booted from the Oval Office this month over its refusal to acknowledge President Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
Even Google and Apple have acknowledged the name change, but the leftist outlet didn’t want to recognize the Gulf’s new legal name.
On Monday, a federal judge denied the Associated Press’s emergency motion to restore its access to the White House press pool.