On Wednesday night, Politico reporter and White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) president Eugene Daniels — who’s soon leaving both positions for MSNBC — sent a lengthy email to members strongly suggesting they refuse to participate in the new press pool rotations created by the White House Press Office (or at least make a fuss out of it) and complaining that expanding who participates “threatens the independence of a free press in the United States.”
He even went as far as to say America’s no longer “free society” because “leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.”
Someone should ask the nine other WHCA board members if they have that ugly view of America.
“What I do know is that this board will not assist any attempt by this administration or any other in taking over independent press coverage of the White…
