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February 25, 2017

Statement From NPR's SVP Of News Mike Oreskes on White House Access

Access to government information and briefings is not a political favor to be handed out to friends and denied to supposed enemies.

The administration should work with the White House Correspondents Association to assure that any restrictions on access for journalists are for clear logistical or space reasons and agreed upon in advance.

Michael Oreskes is NPR's Senior Vice President of News and Editorial Director

http://www.npr.org/about-npr/517104635/statement-from-nprs-svp-of-news-mike-oreskes-on-white-house-access

February 25, 2017

Da, comrades.

https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/835303270784593921
https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/835287819417419778
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/835252699591544833
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/835306231116017665
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/835306935817801729
https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/835291093726072833

February 25, 2017

Committee to Protect Journalists POWERFUL statement on exclusion of news outlets from press briefing

https://www.cpj.org/2017/02/reporters-barred-from-us-press-secretary-briefing.php
https://twitter.com/MicahGrimes/status/835250903032692737

February 25, 2017

A CNN app alert for the history books...

https://twitter.com/JoshuaChavers/status/835212715627012097

February 25, 2017

NYT not playin'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/trump-conservative-political-action-conference-speech.html

February 25, 2017

"CNNs reporting was not fake news." Fox News Shep Smith slams WH ban on news organization.

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/835246604957401089

February 25, 2017

Statement from Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait on the WH Barring Certain Media

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/835272859807264771

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-24/white-house-denies-access-to-briefing-to-times-politico-cnn

UPDATE:
Exclusive: Bloomberg cancels WHCA dinner afterparty
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-bloomberg-cancels-afterparty-2283144254.html

February 25, 2017

It's Official: The Trump Administration Will Soon Solicit Bids for a New Border Wall

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will soon begin soliciting bids "for the design and build of several prototype wall structures in the vicinity of the United States border with Mexico." Bidding begins March 6. The official posting says the administration will select the companies to potentially build the new structure sometime in April.

The solicitation appears to correspond to President Trump's highly publicized pledge to build a new border wall along the US-Mexico border. "We're going to build a wall, don't worry about it," Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. "We're building the wall. We're building the wall. In fact, it's going to start soon. Way ahead of schedule, way ahead of schedule."

The official post soliciting bids for the border wall is available online here.