CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta received a warning back in December 2017. It came from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during one of those ceremonial signings that media folks routinely turn into brief Q-and-A sessions with the president, commonly referred to as “pool sprays.” “She warned me that if I asked the president a question at this pool spray … that she could not promise that I would be allowed into a pool spray again,” Acosta told colleague Wolf Blitzer at the time.
The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) issued a bureaucratic statement at the time: “It is longstanding practice for reporters to ask questions of the president during events like the one today, and it is at the president’s discretion to decide whether and how to answer those questions. It is up to news organizations to determine which journalists they assign to represent them in the pool.”
On Wednesday, the White House appeared to take the next step. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was barred from a press event for reasons that don’t jibe with a free press. “I was blocked from attending an open press event here at the White House, because the White House did not like the questions I posed to President Trump earlier in the day during an event in the Oval Office with the president of the European Commission [Jean-Claude Juncker],” said Collins in discussing the situation with Blitzer on CNN’s air.
Full story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/07/26/the-white-house-smears-a-cnn-correspondent/?utm_term=.97a26798fb92
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