The Pool Filter
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Some White House pool reports are no longer making it to the official distribution list, Status has learned—an unsettling development in the Trump administration’s escalating war on the press.
At approximately six-thirty on Tuesday evening, Joseph Morton, the Washington correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and the White House pooler on duty, tapped out a short email about the press being on the move and hit send. The crux of the email was fairly innocuous. It said that the White House pool, a small group of reporters designated to cover an event on behalf of the larger press corps, had been “loaded into the press vans” and was following Donald Trump “to the NRCC dinner at the National Building Museum.” But it also noted something else: “A reporter and photographer with The Associated Press were turned away from joining the pool.”
It was likely that sentence, which came after a judge had ordered the administration to restore the AP’s access, that irked the White House. That specific pool report from Morton, I’ve learned, was never distributed by the White House to news outlets subscribed to its pool report mailing list—a notable omission and a clear break from precedent.
Des années à subir la droite américaine dénoncer les snowflakes qu’on trigger et qui vous cancelent pour un rien, pour en arriver à ce que Trump micro-manage la censure du bulletin de la Maison Blanche, parce qu’au départ, l’AP n’a pas voulu changer l’appellation du Golfe du Mexique. (Tu vas voir qu’ils vont monter jusqu’à la Cour suprême pour pouvoir continuer à refuser la présence de l’AP à la Maison blanche.)