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In a clash with the AP news agency, the White House will choose its own journalists who report for it

2025-02-26 17:40:39Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
In a clash with the AP news agency, the White House will choose its own
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt

For decades, an independent association of news organizations has determined the journalists who accompany the US president to the Oval Office or on trips. Now the Trump White House wants to determine that for itself.

In the future, the White House wants to decide for itself which media outlets will be allowed to regularly cover President Donald Trump. The Trump administration is abandoning a decades-old tradition of independently selected news organizations accompanying the president on his travels. “Going forward, the White House press corps will be determined by the White House press team,” said White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt.

The group consists of a selection of journalists who participate on behalf of all accredited journalists - for example at events where space is limited - and relay information to all as part of a standardized procedure. The composition of this group was previously regulated by a circular procedure of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA).

The White House justifies the change with modernization

Leavitt said the changes would rotate traditional news organizations and also consider streaming services. This, she said, is a modernization of the press corps. The White House now wants to give the corps access to more media outlets than before, Leavitt said.

This applies, among other things, to local radio and television stations that are “close to the people.” Many of the local broadcasters belong to the Sinclair media group, which is considered right-wing populist and is known to give its journalists centralized instructions on how to report.

Criticism of the White House decision

Jon Marshall, a professor of media history at Northwestern University, called the decision "a dangerous step for democracy." It means "the president can choose who informs the executive branch, ignoring the fact that it is the American people who pay for the operation of the White House with their taxes, for the president's travel and the salary of the press secretary."

The WHCA itself has also come under fire. White House Correspondents' Association President Eugene Daniels said his organization is constantly expanding its membership to include new media outlets. The White House's decision "undermines the independence of a free press in the United States," he said. "In a free country, leaders should not be able to choose their own press corps."

This is preceded by a dispute with the AP.

The backdrop to all this is the dispute with the American news agency AP, which has been going on for weeks and has now reached court. AP journalists no longer have access to the Oval Office because the news agency no longer uses Trump's new term "Gulf of America" ​​to refer to the waters south of the US coast, which are internationally known as the "Gulf of Mexico."

The AP sued White House officials, but a federal judge on Monday declined to immediately order the White House to restore the news agency's access to various events with the president. The AP had not proven that the news agency had suffered irreparable harm as a result of the Trump administration's decision, the judge argued./ DW


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