Reuters was one of the media outlets that, in accordance with the Trump administration's new regulation for media coverage, was stopped from covering the meeting.
A photographer from the news agency AP and a total of three reporters from Reuters, Huffpost, and the German Der Tagesspiegel were denied access. Smaller media outlets, such as Newsmax and The Blaze, were granted access. They are described as more favorably inclined towards Trump. Other traditional media houses, such as ABC, the public service company NPR, and Bloomberg, were also allowed to attend.
It was yesterday that the White House announced that officials from there will "determine" which news providers will regularly be able to cover the president up close.
Previously, it has been a group of media organizations that have determined which media outlets have access.
”It is important in a democracy for the public to have access to news about their government from an independent, free press", write the news agencies AP, Bloomberg, and Reuters in a joint statement in response to the White House's move.
The White House has previously denied AP's journalists access to the White House, Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and the president's plane Air Force One.
The move followed AP still referring to the bay in the Atlantic as the Mexican Gulf – despite Trump having changed the name to the American Gulf.
