White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that it will decide which news outlets will be allowed into the pool, a group of journalists that rotate coverage of the president’s day-to-day activities.
The decision wrests the choice from the independent White House Correspondents’ Association, deepening the tensions between the Trump administration and mainstream media and breaking with decades of precedent.
Leavitt said the move would allow more “new media” into the pool, as well as outlets that “have long been denied the privilege to partake in this experience.”
Source: The White House asserts control over press pool, deepening its tensions with US media
