Cenk Uygur
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Republicans Tried To Ban Reporters From Senate Hallways
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June 14, 2017
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4:32Now PlayingThese crooks really don't want to explain their heist to the public. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Television reporters covering the Capitol were told midday Tuesday to stop recording interviews in Senate hallways, a dramatic and unexplained break with tradition that was soon reversed amid wide rebuke from journalists, Democratic lawmakers and advocates.
The episode heightened existing concerns about reporters’ access to Washington leaders in an era when hostility toward the political media has increasingly become the norm. For some, the move to protect senators from impromptu on-camera interviews fell into a wider Trump-era pattern to roll back press freedoms, whether by barring reporters from interviewing officials or denying them access to briefings, trips and events.
“These are actions that are without precedent in the history of the White House and Congress,” said Ben Wizner, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the group’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.”*
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