New White House Pool Report Restrictions Inspire Pushback

Source: Editor & Publisher

New rules that limit White House pool reporting have sparked opposition from numerous Washington-based news outlets who say the new limitations will keep them out of the coverage.

The new rules limit distribution of press pool reports on presidential trips only to reporters who are traveling with the president.

... "On domestic trips when there are both open and pool events, the Air Force One pool report and other pooled events will be shared only among those reporters traveling. There will be no print pool report issued to the general press e-mail list through the White House press office. Example -- the President’s western trip which included several stops and a commencement address at the Air Force Academy in May.

"On foreign trips, print pool reports will be circulated only among the print reporters manifested on the press charter. This begins with the G-8 trip July 5."

The e-mail added: "West Wing photo ops, and other events or travel where open coverage is denied will still require pool reports distributed through the White House press office. Example -- the President’s pool-only tour of Iowa’s flood damage on June 19th. Print organizations have an obligation to participate in the pool rotation and the WHCA Board reserves the right to restrict these policies further if members do not do so."


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Criminal son of a bitch.

All they get is a front row seat for the choreographed dog and pony show.

they were doing any reporting. They have not done anything, they have given Bush a free pass for 7 1/2 years and now they suddenly give a dam. It is probably best, less propaganda time for Bush if the lapdogs are not there with a microphone.

by talking to some other people because they can't have the "good 'gets'." The ONE news organization that reported correctly on the war and the run-up to it was the Knight-Ridder news service - that did not have White House credentials, did NOT have that precious fucking ACCESS to all the same big names who were all spewing the same big lies. Knight-Ridder's prople were forced to find other people to interview and other directions to pursue to get the story. And they were the ONLY ONES to get it correctly.

Might be a good thing for these coddled jerks to go out and actually do some WORK for a change, rather than just rewriting the White House-issued press releases.

As long as he/she is good at stenography, who else needs to be there? (since they don't really answer oppo questions anyway...)

makes me :rofl:

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in his mail box.