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“We invited the pool so everyone was represented,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said. “We decided to add a couple of additional people beyond the pool. Nothing more than that.”
Friday’s briefing was indeed initially deemed a pool event. A press pool is a 13-member group that includes reporters who represent the five major networks, print organizations and the wire services. The pool’s duty is to attend the event and then distribute the information to other media outlets.
Once the pool was expanded, yet certain media outlets excluded, press representatives argued the effect was the same as a selective ban.
The news organizations that were allowed to attend included Breitbart News, whose former chief exective, Steve Bannon, is Trump’s chief strategist. Bannon has repeatedly described the press as "the opposition party."
At the CPAC speech, Trump railed against the media for relying on anonymous sources for stories that cast his month-old administration in a negative light.
He went so far as to say reporters “shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name,” though some of his own administration officials recently held briefings with news media where they insisted no names be used