White House Journalists Demand End to Biden Admin’s ‘Restrictive’ Presscreening of Reporters

Sixty-eight White House journalists signed a letter to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asking to end the presscreening of reporters who are allowed into Joe Biden’s events, calling the rules “antithetical to the concept of a free press.” “The current method of allowing a limited number of reporters into these events is not only restrictive and antithetical to the concept of a free press, but it has been done without any transparent process into how reporters are selected to cover these events,” the letter, dated June 30, reads. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, CBS News’s Ed O’Keefe, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman,…