Gallery: White House Bans Select Media Outlets From Press Briefing & The Internet Calls Censorship

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White House Bans Select Media Outlets From Press Briefing & The Internet Calls Censorship
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Haley Henschel
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Just hours after President Donald Trump said the media represents the "enemy of the people" during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, reporters from major media organizations were banned from an off-camera White House press briefing with Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

According to CNN, Spicer's aides blocked The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, CNN and BuzzFeed from entering his office for the informal briefing, also known as a gaggle.

Reporters from NBC, ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg were allowed into the gaggle, as the Times reported, as well as representatives from the conservative media outlets Breitbart News, the One America News Network, Fox News, and The Washington Times.

About Haley Henschel

Haley is a writer, editor, and illustrator from Wisconsin, so please don't serve her an Old Fashioned unless it contains brandy. Outside of work, you'll find her aquascaping, getting bossed around by her bird, or planning another trip to Australia. She currently lives in Chicago, where she's having a hard time adjusting to the whole "no ketchup on hot dogs" thing. Feel free to send your pizza recs/Kardashian konspiracies her way. Currently reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

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