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White House Correspondents Protest Lack of Wire Reporters on Air Force One
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:11 pm
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The group representing White House journalists said Monday it was disturbed that the Trump administration barred any wire service news reporters from traveling with the president on Air Force One to the Middle East.
No reporters from The Associated Press, Bloomberg, or Reuters was on the plane, where presidents often take questions from traveling members of the press.
"Their reports are distributed quickly to thousands of news outlets and millions of readers throughout the world every day, so all have equal access to coverage of the presidency," the White House Correspondents' Association said in a statement. "This change is a disservice to every American who deserves to know what their highest elected leader is up to, as quickly as possible."
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In response to a ruling in that case, the White House instituted a new media policy that lumped the wire services in with print reporters in a rotation for space on Air Force One or Oval Office events. A Reuters reporter accompanied the president when he traveled to Pope Francis' funeral.
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Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:14 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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Their reports are distributed quickly to thousands of news outlets and millions of readers
They think their shite is faster than an X.com post?
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:22 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Tuff frickin shite. No doubt they were all white complaining. Boo frickin hoo
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:28 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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In response to a ruling in that case
That ruling continues to be absolute bullshite.
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Under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists… it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints. The Constitution requires no less.
There's no "right" for any new organization to be able to demand to be in the presence of the President. As such, presence in the press pool is a privilege. I get the idea of not wanting the press pool to become a propaganda tool, but making membership more of a "right" for certain members just because they complain also sets a poor standard.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:31 pm to TrueTiger
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They think their shite is faster than an X.com post?
This. The "wire" services have been obsolete for at least 20 years. Arguably longer. News hasn't spread by telegraph in a long long time.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:37 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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Their lies are distributed quickly to thousands of news outlets and millions of gullible sheep throughout the world every day, so all have equal access to leftist propaganda," the White House Correspondents' Association said in a statement.
FIFY
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:40 pm to deeprig9
Many of you know this, but many don't, so I'll say it.
The AP was originally a private corporation (still is) that had the great idea of employing journalists all over the globe, either full time or as "stringers" meaning they weren't on payroll but got paid by the article like a contractor. They were a subscription service for newspapers. If some shite went down in Istanbul, the AP had a reporter on scene. The local newspaper in Macon GA wouldn't know shite about it. But with a subscription to the AP Wire (literally a telegraph), the editor would know if there was some shite going down in Istanbul and put it in his paper, with permission by way of subscription to the AP. For decades, it was an excellent business model to get international, or even just national news out to the general public very quickly, in every local paper, and the AP had ethics, very strong ethics and guidelines, on how to report objectively on things. I myself was trained in this, with the AP Stylebook that used to mean something as recently as the 1990's.
The entire premise and business model is now, and has been since the internet was invented, obsolete. The AP is no longer the AP our parents and grandparents respected.
Everything I just said about the AP goes for Reuters too. Same business model.
ETA- it also worked the other way. A journalist at a Macon GA newspaper that was an AP subscriber would write a story about some shite popping off in Macon, and the AP could pick that up onto their "wire" and have it republished in newspapers all across the country. Young journalists craved getting "picked up" by the AP on a story. They didn't make any extra money, but it gave them rock hard nipples. It was a badge of honor to get picked up by the AP. Yall remember that story about UGA fans trashing the campus after a tailgate? The only reason you ever saw that story is because a journalist at the UGA student newspaper (AP Wire subscriber) got that story picked up by the AP and it spread all over the place.
The AP was originally a private corporation (still is) that had the great idea of employing journalists all over the globe, either full time or as "stringers" meaning they weren't on payroll but got paid by the article like a contractor. They were a subscription service for newspapers. If some shite went down in Istanbul, the AP had a reporter on scene. The local newspaper in Macon GA wouldn't know shite about it. But with a subscription to the AP Wire (literally a telegraph), the editor would know if there was some shite going down in Istanbul and put it in his paper, with permission by way of subscription to the AP. For decades, it was an excellent business model to get international, or even just national news out to the general public very quickly, in every local paper, and the AP had ethics, very strong ethics and guidelines, on how to report objectively on things. I myself was trained in this, with the AP Stylebook that used to mean something as recently as the 1990's.
The entire premise and business model is now, and has been since the internet was invented, obsolete. The AP is no longer the AP our parents and grandparents respected.
Everything I just said about the AP goes for Reuters too. Same business model.
ETA- it also worked the other way. A journalist at a Macon GA newspaper that was an AP subscriber would write a story about some shite popping off in Macon, and the AP could pick that up onto their "wire" and have it republished in newspapers all across the country. Young journalists craved getting "picked up" by the AP on a story. They didn't make any extra money, but it gave them rock hard nipples. It was a badge of honor to get picked up by the AP. Yall remember that story about UGA fans trashing the campus after a tailgate? The only reason you ever saw that story is because a journalist at the UGA student newspaper (AP Wire subscriber) got that story picked up by the AP and it spread all over the place.
This post was edited on 5/13/25 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:42 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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"This change is a disservice to every American who deserves to know what their highest elected leader is up to, as quickly as possible."
Yeah, I’m an American and I can definitely do without the AP, Bloomberg, and Reuters telling us all the f*cking lies that the DNC wants to gaslight and propaganda Americans with.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 5:54 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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No reporters from The Associated Press, Bloomberg, or Reuters was on the plane
Uh yea -- "Reporters". And definitely NOT "Disinfo" peddlers.
AP, Bloomberg and Reuters had better chum up with Benny Johnson or Jim Hoft real soon.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:02 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Dinosaurs protesting the comet
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:07 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Guess they can blame AP. It was limited to them until they went and bitched to a judge.
This post was edited on 5/13/25 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:15 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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No reporters from The Associated Press, Bloomberg, or Reuters was on the plane
Good.
These aren't real journalism outlets.
They're propaganda ops.
They can do that on their own time, in their own space.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:36 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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Posted on 5/13/25 at 6:57 pm to Jbird
Nobody reads that fake news and propaganda shite. Yay for Trump.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:00 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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No reporters from The Associated Press, Bloomberg, or Reuters was on the plane, where presidents often take questions from traveling members of the press.
It’s a privilege, not a right.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 7:59 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
So these people are flying around with Joe Biden and never got a hint of something wrong with him?
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:13 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Classic FAFO
Be a terrible liberal reporting service and then bitch about being cut off land response is much less access
Good
Be a terrible liberal reporting service and then bitch about being cut off land response is much less access
Good
Posted on 5/14/25 at 2:51 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Posted on 5/14/25 at 7:21 am to Bard
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I get the idea of not wanting the press pool to become a propaganda tool
It has been, that's what Trump is attempting to correct.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 8:20 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
WCA can get fricked.
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