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SGT Supply Sergeant (S4)
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Seems like some people are trying to bring back segregation.
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CMSgt Security Forces
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No audio or video, only black press...seems transparent.
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LTC Eugene Chu
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It is wrong, but Trump administration also barred specific media from briefings back in 2017...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer
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SPC Robert Conway
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MSgt (Join to see) No one here has attempted to defend the group in question's obvious error in judgement, unlike your vociferous defense of the same kind of facism by Trump.
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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SPC Robert Conway - I believe there is a significant flaw in your argument.

_The "informal gaggle" was in lieu of the Normal Press briefing in the James Brady Press briefing room.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer

_Sean Spicer decided to hold the "gaggle" instead of the normal press briefing. "I've said this since the beginning. The president spoke today, he was on-camera," Spicer said. "He will make another comment today at the technology summit. And there are days that I'll decide that the president's voice should be the one that speaks and iterates his priorities."
Source: https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/media/white-house-press-briefing-donald-trump-media/index.html

_Because Spicer's office is smaller than the Brady press room, the entire press Corps that attends the regular briefing could not attend. There is a regular Press Pool for smaller venues. Membership in the regular press pool is determined by the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), and changes daily. Under agreements established by the WHCA the information collected by the press pool must be shared with all WHCA members that are not invited.
Source: https://www.whca.press/

_Sean Spicer decided that his office could accommodate a handful more of correspondents than the WHCA press pool. The "banned" news agencies were not banned. They just weren't in that days press pool and were not among the additional agencies Spicer chose to invite.
Source: https://fair.org/home/study-sean-spicers-handpicked-press-corps/

Did their level of antagonism toward the President figure into the decision to additional invitations? probably. So what? They still get the info share from the briefing. They get exactly what every attending agency got. No more. No less.

LTC Eugene Chu
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MSgt Nondestructive Inspection (NDI)
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SPC Robert Conway - Eugene was the one who brought Trump into this first. Now since you bring up the subject of an administration cracking down on the press and behaving in a improper manner...
https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-admin-spied-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-134204299.html

Really, we should not even be dicsussing Trump or Obama in this. The prospect of banning certain reporters from a political event due purely to their color is just plain wrong. If you can’t see that you should take a better look at yourself.
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Sgt John Steinmeier
Sgt John Steinmeier
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It's hard to color AND stay inside the lines isn't it Major? One day you will be able to.
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