White House bars some news organisations from briefing


  • World
  • Saturday, 25 Feb 2017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House excluded several major U.S. news organisations, including some it has openly criticised, from an off-camera briefing held by the White House press secretary on Friday, representatives of the organisations said.

Reporters for CNN, The New York Times, Politico, The Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed were not allowed into the session in the office of press secretary Sean Spicer.

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