On Wednesday, the White House denied journalists from Reuters and other press organizations at the first meeting of President Donald Trump in accordance with the new administration policy concerning media coverage.
The White House denied access to a photographer from Associated Press and three journalists from Reuters, Huffpost and Der Tagesspiegel, a German newspaper.
ABC and Newsmax television teams, as well as Axios, The Blaze, Bloomberg News and NPR were allowed to cover the event.
Trump administration announced on Tuesday that the White House would determine which media would cover the president in smaller spaces such as the oval office.
The association of White House correspondents has traditionally coordinated the rotation of the presidential press basin. Reuters, an international metal service, has participated in the swimming pool for decades.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that if traditional media organizations would still be allowed to cover Trump on a daily basis, the administration plans to change that participates in smaller spaces.
The swimming pool system, administered by the WHCA, made it possible to select television, radio, thread, printing and photojournalists to cover events and share their relationships with wider media.
The three thread services that traditionally served as permanent members of the White House swimming pool, AP, Bloomberg and Reuters, published a statement in response to the new policy on Wednesday.
The services “have worked for a long time to guarantee that precise, fair and timely information on the presidency is communicated to a large audience of all political persuas, in the United States and in the world. A large part of the White House cover see them in their local media, wherever they are in the world, come from the sons, “said the three organizations.
“It is essential in a democracy for the public to have access to news from their government from an independent and free press.”
HuffPost described the Decision of the White House a violation of the law of the first amendment to press freedom. On Tuesday, the WHCA also published a Protestant statement against the new White House policy.
This decision follows the Trump administration’s decision to prevent the Associated Press from being in the pool because it refused to designate the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, the name of Trump has allocated the body of water or update its style of style largely followed to reflect such a change.
Leavitt said the five main cable and broadcasting television networks would continue to keep their seats in the pool while the White House would add streaming services. Journalists with rotation prints and radio journalists would continue to be included, while new outlets and radio hosts are added.
