Outrage Over the ban on Journalists in White House, Media Organizations Issued Joint Statement

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during the daily briefing in White House on Feb. 25, 2025.

Journalists of some media organizations who came to cover Donald Trump's cabinet meeting have been banned from entering the White House. These include many well-known media houses including the world's top news agencies AP, Reuters. 

President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. During this, reporters of these agencies did not get entry into the White House. The photographer of The Associated Press (AP) and three reporters of Reuters who came to cover this meeting were not allowed inside.

Huffington Post and a German newspaper also did not get entry into the White House. At the same time, reporters of media organizations like ABC News, Newsmax, The Blaze, NPR were not stopped. All of them had already gone inside and they were not stopped in any way.

News agencies Reuters, Associated Press and Bloomberg have issued a statement regarding this incident. These institutions say that this decision of the Donald Trump administration can pose a threat to democracy.

In their joint statement, the teams said, "Bloomberg, AP and Reuters have been permanent members of the White House pool. We have long taken care that accurate information reaches people around the world. There should be no political interference in it. People around the world read us. At the local level, many media institutions have been using our wire. He further said that in a democracy, it is important for the public to keep getting information about the government through free press."

The three institutions further said, "We believe that banning media on programs related to the President is wrong. This is a threat to the principle of freedom of expression in democracy. This hinders the information coming to the public, community, business, global financial markets. Who depend on us for correct information.

"As you all know, for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents' Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore..."
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— VOiCE OF MEDIA (@voiceofmedia1) February 27, 2025

It is worth noting that Donald Trump keeps attacking many media institutions directly. Before becoming the President, he had said that if he becomes the President, he will ban their entry into the White House. This order has come in this regard. These journalists had come to cover Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting.

On Wednesday night, Eugene Daniels, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, announced that the association would no longer distribute pool reports from selected White House reporters, but the White House itself would do this.

Earlier on Tuesday, the White House announced that it was taking control of the press pool covering President Trump. Thus it has become the first administration in decades to decide which news organizations and which reporters will be allowed close to the President to ask him questions in places like the Oval Office and Air Force One.