“It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it” for the White House Correspondents’ Association, one of The Daily Beast’s sources said.
If you’re a reporter with a tough question for the White House press secretary, Joe Biden’s staff wouldn’t mind knowing about it in advance.
According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, as well as written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the new president’s communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings.
– Read more at The Daily Beast
A new, eyebrow-raising report suggests the White House communications team has attempted to screen questions for press secretary Jen Psaki in advance of daily briefings, as media watchdogs caution that the Biden team will have to walk a fine line given the way reporters treated President Trump’s spokespeople.
Spectator USA editor Amber Athey, who used to be a White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, never experienced anything resembling what Biden’s communications staff has been accused of.
“The Trump administration certainly never asked me for questions in advance and I suspect there would have been universal outrage from reporters if they had done so,” Athey told Fox News.
– Read more at Fox News
“It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it” ? These so called “Pravda journalists” are nothing but lapdogs and sheep for Joseph Stalin Biden and now some of these “Pravda reporters” are upset? What a joke.
I wonder, how many of those “peeved off” reporters, will STOP GOING To the white house?
Massive ignorance has invaded the White House . Top to bottom.
Just tell them what they want to hear before the Press meeting, then ask them whatever you want to when the cameras are rolling. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. This Psaki person won’t last or even fade the heat much longer. She kept repeating and repeating and repeating “The immoral corrupt administration” fall back response to the point where the good reporters kept asking themselve “Why ask the any question when you get the same party line answer”
It is painfully obvious that White House Press Secretary “circle-back” Jen Psaki is seriously unprepared to answer questions from reporters so the administration had no choice but to have reporters submit their questions in advance. In addition to preventing Psaki from looking like a clueless mouthpiece for the Biden team, this unprecedented change will allow the radical left administration to screen reporters’ questions to omit any that might prove embarrassing and include only those that portray the president and his policies in a positive light. Welcome to the Democrats’ version of 1984!
Makes you wonder, WHO SHE DID, to get the job. Doesn’t it.
She does not think well on her feet. “I’ll circle back to you” is wearing thin. Biden and the people pulling the strings, CCP, Kamala, Pelosi, whoever is behind the curtains need time to get their stories straight. The wool has been pulled from a majority of American’s eyes now, and just as the Manchurian Candidate. . . “Now what?” Another impeachment or shall we say. “America look over here, not over there, where some real problems are going on.
They need to have an investigation into the fabricated stories of AOC aka Sandy Smolett, and see exactly what nefarious things she is into. Where is the FBI and the CIA in this story she has concocted and why aren’t any questions being asked of Psaki, oh that’s right, she will circle back to America regarding those lies of AOC, and probably the twelfth of never is the date.
So the media is going to allow the press secretary to decide which questions are worth being asked? I don’t know which is worse–“journalists” which will participate in this sham or a press secretary that has no real knowledge of the administration or their actions.
I appreciate Joe Biden giving this older woman a job. I’m sure it is hard for unskilled workers to find jobs right now, but I would question whether he should have given her such a visible job.
I’d not call a single one of those schleps, a ‘Journalist”.
Should they submit questions in advance?
Unless you want to hear this for the next few years:
That’s a very interesting question. I’m afraid I’ll have to circle back to that……some day. The pre-scripted answers would contain no more or less truth than that.