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Wed Jun 28, 2017, 07:57 PM Jun 2017

I dont like bullies: Reporter explains why he confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Brian Karem, the reporter who confronted deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a news  briefing, said he did so because he’s had enough of the Trump administration’s bullying of the media.

“I don’t like bullies and I don’t like the entire situation of the press and free speech being castigated for no other reason than we either get stories wrong — which happens, and it should be then responsibly corrected — or because we report news the president doesn’t like — which seems to happen even more often than getting stories wrong,” Karem, executive editor of two Maryland newspapers, wrote in a column explaining his outburst during the Tuesday briefing.

Sanders was in the middle of blasting the media, specifically the use of anonymous sources and the now-retracted CNN story on Russia ties with the Trump campaign, when Karem interjected.

Here’s part of the tense exchange:

KAREM: Come on, you’re inflaming everybody right here, right now with those words. This administration has done that as well. Why in the name of heavens — any one of us, right, are replaceable. And any one of us, if we don’t get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us.


SANDERS: I think —


KAREM: You have been elected to serve for four years at least. There’s no option other than that.


SANDERS: I think —

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