Relations between Trump’s administration and the White House Press Corps further worsened on Monday, as reporters pushed new plans to change their work arrangements on the west wing.
The latest skirmish has come, as the administration said it would consider the possibility of taking control of the journalists’ seating table in the James S. Brady Information Room, which has been designated by the White House correspondents for decades, a group of about 900 reporters.
When a journalist is on television updates is a symbolic issue – it shows the perceived importance of a particular news equipment – and a practice. Journalists in the front series usually receive more than their questions addressed by the press secretary during the updates.
In a note to the members, the Board of Directors of the correspondents Union accused Trump’s officials of being looking for “to put pressure on reporters to cover with whom they disagree”.
“The White House must abandon this effort and show the American people who are not afraid to explain their policies and questions from independent media without government control,” the Board wrote.
A change in the seating diagram would be equivalent to another violation by President Trump’s assistants in the daily procedures of the journalists who cover them. White house officials are now choosing and choosing some news stores to participate in the Presidential Group and journalists from the Associated Press have been banned from attending certain events.
The information room is a limited space, built over a former swimming pool, in which journalists are often affected by angles and crackers for the opportunity to raise a press secretary during updates that are often broadcast live on cable television. Axios first mentioned the White House’s future plans to reorganize the work for the 49 permanent positions of the room.
Karoline Leavitt, a White House Press Secretary, has framed the changes of administration as an attempt to encourage employees in “New Media” stores-including podcasters, right-wing speech groups and streaming sites-to join journalists in Times covering White House.
“We believe it is fundamentally unfair that a group of Elitist journalists based on DC is getting to choose who he is taking to cover the President of the United States,” Ms Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News on Monday. “The media have changed a lot in decades of coverage of the press here at the White House and it’s time to change the cover with it.”
The correspondent Association includes members of dozens of news organizations, small and large, and has regularly rebuilt seats in the press room – though often in the rear series – to media working for the media. Primary positions in the diagram are usually intended for major news organizations employing non -profit journalists.
“For the public to get the information needed to understand and make decisions about the most powerful office in the world, it needs news produced by experienced, professional journalists who ask difficult questions and produce fair coverage,” the Union Council said in his note.
White House Communications Director, Steven Cheung, responded to social media, describing the president of the Union as “stupid”. Mrs Leavitt described the team’s response as “fundamentally silent”.
The previous presidents of both Contracting Parties that adhere to the determination of the White House press on its own, which journalists have received greater access. However, conservative organizations such as Breitbart News have long been protesting that the Union has an excessive influence on identifying journalists who have preferred access to the President or Press Secretary.
Many podcasters, influencers and smaller pieces do not have resources or staff regularly covering the president’s daily activities, which often involve precise travel and meticulous transfers of his observations.
The tensions also reflected the shift plans for the annual dinner of this year’s White House correspondents, a fact that in previous times was considered a time of comity between the President and his Press.
From Mr Trump’s first term, the collective atmosphere around the event has collapsed. Mrs Leavitt said she had no plans to attend the dinner on April 26. On Saturday, the correspondent Association said he had canceled a performance by Amber Ruffin, the scheduled entertainer, days after the publication of a Podcast in which Ms Ruffin excluded Trump’s employees as a “kind of killers”.
Trump’s administration is considering hosting an opposing event on the night of this year’s dinner and inviting journalists from new media stores and other venues other than traditional news organizations to attend, according to a person who reported the plans.
