Loading ...White House is refusing to distribute press pool reports that contain ‘inconvenient’ info
In what appears to be a push to take even firmer control over the press corps’ coverage of the current administration, the White House is now selectively distributing reports submitted by press poolers and apparently cutting the ones it doesn’t like.
Oliver Darcy of Status News first reported Wednesday night that at least two recent dispatches filed by the poolers on duty were not sent out to the news outlets that are subscribed to the White House pool report mailing list.
It’s good to know that it’s happening — censorship is censorship regardless of who does it. The information censored likely gets more coverage because of the censorship than the value of the information involved……..