No, a Trump press pool won’t be worse get a WHCA press pool. There is no reason they should get to decide and I’d rather the Whitehouse do it—and take the blame if it’s censorious—than have an unelected, unrepresentative body of “elite” journalists deciding.
When the questions asked are “gotcha” questions, or to elicit a sound bite rather than asked to elicit information, who cares who decide’s who is in the press pool?
Related:
"Marco Rubio has something to say, and it’s not in a soundbite
The Trump administration’s flirtation with “independent” media
Ken Klippenstein
Feb 27, 2025"
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/marco-rubio-has-something-to-say
No, a Trump press pool won’t be worse get a WHCA press pool. There is no reason they should get to decide and I’d rather the Whitehouse do it—and take the blame if it’s censorious—than have an unelected, unrepresentative body of “elite” journalists deciding.
When the questions asked are “gotcha” questions, or to elicit a sound bite rather than asked to elicit information, who cares who decide’s who is in the press pool?