Two major news networks’ journalists said they were denied access to the White House on Saturday morning, with reporters from CNN and MS NOW both going live to report about the circumstances of the ban imposed by President Donald Trump.
The actions escalated Trump’s long-running efforts to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionable, and is the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States. Trump said Friday he would ban both organizations and Politico because of their coverage.
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CNN issued a statement saying it stood behind its reporters.
“We will not be deflected from our duty to hold the government and other public bodies to account,” it said. The statement was shown on the air before senior White House reporter Betsy Klein began to report on her ban.
United States of North Korea. Control the media, Control the people.
@ben, you are the liberal toilet bowl, they all relieve themselves in your waiting and willing mouth 👄
I wish Canada could ban the paid media from Canada. We don’t even have one Main Stream Media organization who doesn’t spin the Liberal narrative
@Ben. You can’t even dispute anything I said, and you just blabber on about freedom and democracy.
The US is a constitutional REPUBLIC and not a democracy.
The press doesn’t have the freedom to lie, and they are not guaranteed access to the Whitehouse, they can lie from the office.
David Best and Ben must be the same person. They just love the wokeism and leftist dismantling of the America.
They suffer from advanced TDS and barely have one shared thought between the two.
Especially David whose only mantra is that everyone is a village idiot. So typical of the leftist limited vocabulary, if you disagree with someone more evolved than you, just call them names because that’s all your two-cell brain is capable of.
I’ve watched you two trying to rebuke some very intelligent and observant comments, and, frankly, it was rather disappointing. Do better. Bring some facts, not just opinions, to the table.
@Cnn are hypocrites. As a supporter of Trump, you are part of the reason why freedom, press freedom, and democracy indices-which are nonpartisan and cover the world-are plunging in the USA. Continue with your participation in destroying your democracy and silencing NON maga voices.
Trump responded to CNN’s statement with a list of lies CNN has spread over the years.
It has nothing to do with the first amendment at all, their access has been restricted not speech.
These outlets didn’t cry “first amendment” when Trump was banned from social media or had a gag order put on him by a judge.
Brian Seltzer said in 2021 that Fox News should be banned from the Whitehouse.
Leftist hypocrisy always shows up when they are the victim.
My hobbies are smelling dog butts and smelling dirty socks
My wife is a hamster, she’s only thing I can satisfy with my penus, yanky my doodle poodle
My brain hurts!
Anonymous the village idiot…do you cut and paste other people’s comments? Being a simpleton you figured out how to do that . Impressive.
I’d ban them, too. They’re left wing propaganda machines who will twist everything Trump says. They have done it before, that’s precisely why he has chosen to just tweet his stuff.
I’m not a fan of his but I understand why he did it.
This is why the US is dropping even further down on world democracy and freedom indices. Glad I live in Canada.
Do we think they really care? Everything the moron says is a lie anyway.
Lots of ‘head in the sand’ type pp supporters to go around.
Why do we care about what Trump decides on his own country?
Shouldn’t global and the rest of the mainstream media be calling out carney trying to sell Canada’s sovereignty to China or the eu? Or his multiple conflicts of interest? Him not caring or doing anything for Canada or canadian prosperity? Extreme blow up of immigration or criminal activity? The list goes on but we care more about it trump farts rather than the livelihood of Canadians
I wouldnt exactly call them journalists
Orange man can’t handle the truth, nuff said!!
I think the White House should allow the reporters back in but banish Donald Trump instead.
I’m sure the Western governments who are always whining at the world about freedom of the press will immediately take Trumpty Dumbty to task for this. Haha
Nothing really to report from there anyway. Best to avoid.
Trump and his administration are deluded if he thinks banning CNN and MS NOW and other media outlets would hide his failures. The courts will never allow this as it goes against the US constitution. It goes against the Freedom of the Press, the rights to free speech and reporting.
Perhaps all media should avoid the White House. After all the only ‘news’ they get is lies, threats and B.S.
Canada pays off the media in Canada. China pays off the media in the USA.
CNN can stand by it’s reporters….
outside of the Whitehouse.
Trump should pay off news agencies like Carney does in Canada.
Good. They are worthless political organizations, not news.