Tag: Media

Barack Obama jokes: People would be born two years ago if they had a choice

Daniel Chaitin · November 19, 2018 11:37 pm

CNN's Jim Acosta enters the Brady press briefing room upon returning back to the White House in Washington.

White House restores Acosta’s press pass, sets new rules for reporters

Melissa Quinn · November 19, 2018 8:53 pm

Members of the audience cheer as President Trump leaves the stage at the end of a campaign rally Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Washington Secrets

Liberal Media Scream: CNN analyst declares supporting Trump ‘makes you racist’

Paul Bedard · November 19, 2018 6:52 pm

Former President Barack Obama shares a laugh with author Ron Chernow before presenting him with the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

White House media dinner headliner was a member of ‘Historians Against Trump’

David Mark · November 19, 2018 6:49 pm

Jim Acosta, chief White House correspondent for CNN, pauses while speaking to members of the media following a hearing outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. PresidentÂ Donald TrumpÂ must restore White House access to CNN reporter Acosta for now, a federal judge said.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Acosta is the White House’s dumbest hill to die on

Tiana Lowe Doescher · November 19, 2018 6:23 pm

Comedian Michelle Wolf speaks at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 28, 2018.

Michelle Wolf: White House reporters are ‘cowards’ for dropping comedian from 2019 dinner

Caitlin Yilek · November 19, 2018 5:58 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Comedians aren’t funny anymore, so the WHCA wisely chose a historian instead

Tiana Lowe Doescher · November 19, 2018 5:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

Press shouldn’t celebrate too soon on Jim Acosta lawsuit

Mark Grabowski · November 19, 2018 4:41 pm

FILE - In this April 18, 2011 file photo, author Ron Chernow appears at his home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The historian whose Alexander Hamilton biography was the basis for the Broadway musical âHamiltonâ has a new biography, "Grant," a thousand-page biography of Ulysses Grant.

Comedians dropped from White House Correspondents’ dinner

Caitlin Yilek · November 19, 2018 3:58 pm

CNN's Jim Acosta enters the Brady press briefing room upon returning back to the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to immediately return Acostaâs credentials. He found that Acosta was âirreparably harmedâ and dismissed the governmentâs argument that CNN could send another reporter in Acostaâs place to cover the White House.

White House moves to strip CNN’s Jim Acosta of press credential after court order

Melissa Quinn · November 19, 2018 3:15 pm

"The most dangerous 'enemy of the people' is presidential lying—always. Attacks on press by @realDonaldTrump more treacherous than Nixon's," tweeted Carl Bernstein. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Carl Bernstein suggests media should edit White House pressers before airing them

Naomi Lim · November 18, 2018 10:36 pm

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a signing ceremony for the Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership at APEC Haus in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018.

National Security

Mike Pence: US ‘determined’ to hold people responsible for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder ‘accountable’

Naomi Lim · November 18, 2018 2:59 pm