White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared Sunday on the Fox News Channel’s MediaBuzz and debated host Howard Kurtz on a slew of subjects over two segments, including the Associated Press hubbub over its ban from the press pool (the smaller, rotating group of journalists that follow the President to smaller events and on Air Force One) and the press shop taking over the pool’s make-up.
On the AP lawsuit and the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico name change, Kurtz framed the back-and-forth as “the White House trying to dictate the editorial stance of an independent media outlet,” but Leavitt countered this was keeping a promise she made in her first briefing that “we were going to hold news media outlets accountable if they were pushing lies.”
Leavitt pointed out the AP was who took this matter to court (thinking their lack of…
