White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed “there is no restriction” on press access to President Biden’s large indoor events despite a long-running mysterious prescre…
The prescreening process has never been explained, even to leaders of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which has lobbied for years for a resumption of historical access norms and the end of the murky vetting, which on May 8 was used to exclude The Post from an event despite about“The White House press office — your office — continues to prescreen reporters allowed into large indoor events that formerly, under past presidents, were open to all journalists,” a reporter for The Post...
The Post’s reporter press Jean-Pierre: “There’s often so many empty seats. Are you still committed to rolling back these restrictions and ending the prescreening process?”“Every event is different, every event plays to the room that we’re in. We have expanded credentials over the past several months…. As COVID has waned, we’ve taken this very seriously and have taken in the comments and the requests that’s come from this room.
The press office said this month that it’s no longer invoking the COVID-19 pandemic to justify the screening initiative.
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