Media elites howling as Trump admin considers expanding access to WH briefings beyond 49 elite insider journalists

[rangerrebew]

January 16, 2017
Media elites howling as Trump admin considers expanding access to WH briefings beyond 49 elite insider journalists
By Thomas Lifson

The mainstream media declared war on the candidacy of Donald Trump, with the New York Times leading the way in a front-page opinion column arguing, “you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century” and discard notions of “balance.”  Now, the entitled media elites are discovering that there is a price to losing a war, as the Trump administration is considering the White House briefing room out of its current quarters, where only 52 members of the White House Correspondents Association can be accommodated.

The imperious media stars are not amused.

In Politico Magazine, Jim Schaefer snarks his way into yet another fake news claim:

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[skeeter]

NOW the NYT is concerned about tradition. Hilarious.

[Sanguine]

I expect Breitbart will field one of the new journalists.  Even so, this could be very good. 

[endicom]

NOW the NYT is concerned about tradition. Hilarious.

There is no tradition as the format has often changed.

[truth_seeker]

Media has lost control with Trump in the WH.

No longer do they control the news agenda, analysis and discussion of same.

New paradigm, among folks not really equipped to cope well.

[TomSea]

Not just Breitbart, there could be a lot of new faces,