White House will start charging members
of the press $170 to have a COVID-19
test before they can enter the grounds—
in a move that could cripple news
organizations and limit coverage
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Rachel Sharp
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/27/2021 7:17:57 PM
The White House will start charging members of the press $170 to have a COVID-19 test before they can enter the grounds, according to a report, in a move that could financially cripple news organizations and limit coverage of the Biden administration altogether.(Snip) Under the Trump administration, COVID-19 testing for the media was only available to members of the press pool who were coming into close contact with Donald Trump or to people exposed to a positive case via a White House event. These tests were paid for by the White House however testing was not available to journalists attending press
LOL LOL LOL LOL Sorry, I think this is so funny. They loved the liberals and karma is a *&(^%
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/27/2021 7:27:22 PM (No. 710151)
Wait until Ole'Joe has HIS first solo press conference. He'll be charging a $17k entrance fee Covid vaccine or not - masks required, of course. Hunter will be selling the tickets and Jill will be serving burritos at $100 a pop.
81 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/27/2021 7:28:49 PM (No. 710152)
Proof that Biden and his Board of Regents don't want open representative government. They don't want to be held accountable by anyone. What's the lefty media going to do now? Bet certain media organizations will have waivers. We don't have a government. We have rulers.
98 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
zzzghy 2/27/2021 7:30:57 PM (No. 710154)
170 bucks to sit through one of Jen Ptoi!'s riveting monologues? There's money well-spent. Heh; you'd be better off listening to a broken fan.
This is likely another organ grinder scheme to shield Jo Dong Xiden from the inevitable live-mic screw-ups that seem to come every day like clockwork lately.
62 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 2/27/2021 7:52:02 PM (No. 710172)
But that requirement is going to have a disproportionate impact or the poor and historically-disadvantaged members of the press and news organization, Where, oh where is equity and inclusion?
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This could be part of their set up, since they do not want to answer any questions. It's a disincentive to attend, so when press corps numbers dwindle, they can justifiably blame the press before shutting down the briefings.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Moritz55 2/27/2021 7:57:18 PM (No. 710174)
Imagine the outcry if the Trump administration had tried a stunt like this!
88 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 2/27/2021 8:03:48 PM (No. 710177)
I smell a backfire and a retraction coming. Or worse, I smell obfuscation. "We were misunderstood. That wasn't the message." Blah, blah, blah.
32 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Namma 2/27/2021 8:04:38 PM (No. 710178)
Looks to me like someone does not want others to know what’s going on in the WH.
41 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 2/27/2021 8:06:26 PM (No. 710179)
I don't think $170 would cripple any of the news organizations. So we need to charge ABC $170 while we're spending $1,900,000,000,000.00 on that Covid bill.
40 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/27/2021 8:09:14 PM (No. 710180)
They should be charging them for parking as well. I think another $170.
37 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 2/27/2021 8:24:56 PM (No. 710183)
Make it $1.7 trillion each!
That’s sounds fair...
F’n liberal asses!
36 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/27/2021 8:31:11 PM (No. 710186)
There hasn't been a "press conference" since Trump left. They are now "propaganda conferences" I think -but I'll circle back to that.
64 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/27/2021 8:51:29 PM (No. 710192)
Can you imagine what the original SNL crew would do with the likes of the Xiden administration? Sad to say Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin probably voted for Grandpa Simpson.
47 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/27/2021 9:02:37 PM (No. 710196)
And these slimeballs bitched about Trump, and glorified Traitor Joe.
47 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/27/2021 9:13:42 PM (No. 710199)
This fee provision will probably only effectively apply to media representatives who the Biden Administration considers to be adversarial right wing reporters, with friendly left wing propagandists (reporters) being granted fee waivers.
30 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Penney 2/27/2021 9:17:04 PM (No. 710200)
That is odd. Why should the Biden WH fear the dem press puppets?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
volksford 2/27/2021 9:24:18 PM (No. 710201)
Anal swabs for the lot of them !
42 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 2/27/2021 9:26:21 PM (No. 710202)
I'm not quite sure why Biteme even has a press spoke person. The handlers just need to hand out a memo, and the media will broadcast it without questioning it. Isn't that basically what's been happening anyway?
37 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 2/27/2021 9:50:26 PM (No. 710212)
10 percent goes to the Big Guy.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Boliver 2/27/2021 9:51:12 PM (No. 710214)
They need to make it Covid-19 anal swab testing. If it's good enough for our diplomats in China it's good enough for the press and absolutely well deserved.
39 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 2/27/2021 9:59:03 PM (No. 710216)
Only government could come up with this insanity. Pass a 1.7 Trillion dollar Covid bill and it’s not enough to cover a test for those entering the White House. Maybe the reporters should start covering the truth about everything Covid.
25 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/27/2021 10:30:21 PM (No. 710223)
What % to the big guy?
16 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 2/27/2021 10:35:17 PM (No. 710229)
They are circling back to the reporter's wallets.
17 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
subman47 2/27/2021 10:41:30 PM (No. 710232)
Pardon me if I get a little tear in my eye for the shabby treatment of the media by the Sleepy Joe administration. LOL. Oh just turn the other cheek. You newspaper folks can afford the $170 bucks. Wear your mask and don't forget the social distancing. Do it for sleepy Joe. He's your guy. Right?
29 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/27/2021 11:13:50 PM (No. 710243)
At the hospital in my County when they allow people in all they do is take their temperature.
I go to a lot of meetings and the general way to check for a problem with Covid is to take the temperature.
A covid test sometimes takes a while to administer and it would be crazy to have to take one every day, but if anyone can afford a $170 buck test it's the media.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 2/27/2021 11:14:56 PM (No. 710244)
Access to President Biden? You have to pay for it... lol
23 people like this.
Someone needs to make some bumper stickers with Trumps picture and "Miss me yet ?"
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/27/2021 11:52:28 PM (No. 710258)
Fee for Press entrance, Taxes to slow down ammo/weapon sales..Poll taxes..any one see a pattern in Liberal rights?
12 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/27/2021 11:55:25 PM (No. 710259)
One thing is for sure, Biden will never give a press conference where he will stand there sometimes for over an hour, as Trump did, and answer the questions of all comers contemporaneously and sometimes humorously. The media from now on with just have to make due with being circled back on, or with a handout summary.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
XCenturion 2/27/2021 11:59:58 PM (No. 710261)
When they apply the testing nasal swab to these lying hacks I recommend dipping it in oleoresin capsicum first.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/28/2021 12:11:05 AM (No. 710269)
Ain't no biggie. We weren't getting any news from them anyway, just a ditto sheet (purple with a nice pleasant alcohol-y smell from grade school). Just sell them those magic Fauci masks each time they try to gain access. They should just have a press pool, only one member per day, but that one has to share all notes among the others.
12 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/28/2021 1:25:19 AM (No. 710303)
Cripple news organizations and limit coverage? Brilliant idea.
Softball "questions" and canned lie responses are dispensable.
9 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
mifla 2/28/2021 4:56:09 AM (No. 710348)
Does Joe get 10%?
4 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/28/2021 7:19:26 AM (No. 710381)
No press, no coverage - it’s a win-win for team bozo....
8 people like this.
Get woke, go broke.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
downnout 2/28/2021 8:11:41 AM (No. 710421)
Why don’t they use Zoom? No need to be at the WH.
5 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/28/2021 8:18:55 AM (No. 710426)
And the media took one in the pocket... it's gonna cost them money to participate....lefties trying to squeeze out Newsman... OAN... and Fox... and in the process pi--ing off the fake media dudes and dudesses ... don't ya just love it...careful what you pray for... you just might get it...
4 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
jinx 2/28/2021 8:30:29 AM (No. 710438)
I'll send money to help pay for Peter Doocy to keep going. He's the only one who asks the right questions.
12 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/28/2021 8:56:09 AM (No. 710462)
LOL!
To quote the media’s messiah, “Elections have consequences”!
4 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 2/28/2021 9:47:39 AM (No. 710506)
Ash yourself, White House press 'corpse', is Circleback Girl worth $170 smackers to get your swab test for the flu? I wouldn't put myself through it that's for sure.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/28/2021 10:31:22 AM (No. 710547)
When you get slapped you'll take it & like it.
The sign in front of the WH press room.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
broken01 2/28/2021 10:37:01 AM (No. 710550)
The S.C.U.M. aka the So Called Unbiased Media have been in the tank for democrats like Sleepy Joe since the days of Walter Cronkite. As sure as I’m writing this they would gladly pay any price to have access to the Xiden Regime. That way they can help keep the propaganda rolling along like clockwork. The leftist media is a pathetic farce but it’s to be expected.
4 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
joew9 2/28/2021 10:55:09 AM (No. 710571)
Don't be so sure the liberal media will suffer. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts (whatever that means) that this will be disproportionately applied to conservative reporters.
The liberal reporters will get in based on their words that they have been tested while the conservative reporters will have to present much costly paperwork and still nothing will be enough.
2 people like this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/28/2021 10:55:14 AM (No. 710572)
Violators will receive a stern talking-to, and the second time it's a one week detention.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
little guy 2/28/2021 11:01:30 AM (No. 710580)
Will these swabs the anal variety that the Chi-Coms performed on Biden's new Ambassador and his staff?
Seriously, the White House knows many of the smaller news-wire services are conservative and on a shoe-string budget. Holding two or three events a day can quickly add to to thousands of dollars a week. Even deducting it as a "business expense" would knock a hole in any budget. CNN, MSNBC, The Slimes, etc can afford it --- so it's meant to screw the conservatives.
2 people like this.
Reply 47 - Posted by:
Moshgot 2/28/2021 12:16:12 PM (No. 710645)
More censorship. Why are we allowing this to happen? Imagine if Trump’s White House attempted this.
2 people like this.
Reply 48 - Posted by:
bmw50 2/28/2021 12:30:54 PM (No. 710658)
The media, which shares the same values as other godless communist nations, has believed it can make friends with the Devil and be a part of his unholy club.
They will find out, that the Devil only wants to destroy, all that God has created. When the Devil is through with them, they will be destroyed too and be nothing more than an ash heap.
1 person likes this.
Reply 49 - Posted by:
jacksin5 2/28/2021 12:37:13 PM (No. 710664)
Washington D.C. is on military lockdown, and now the Press if being effectively banned from press conferences. This Administration now no longer has to answer to either the American People or the Press.
This is now the epitome of a Banana Republic.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
FLCracker 2/28/2021 12:38:24 PM (No. 710666)
Hey. Freedom of the Press. It only cost $170.00 per pop.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
garyhope 2/28/2021 3:03:54 PM (No. 710779)
So much for the so called "free press". It's called control. You will obey,....You will conform. Or else.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/28/2021 9:04:39 PM (No. 710969)
Most of these news organizations are already mentally crippled so why not finish the job? Bite-Me will be talking to a tiny audience - as usual.
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Why bother with press conferences at all? Circleback Girl can't answer any remotely difficult or uncomfortable questions, and Dung Xio Bidet can't handle questions on his own. Save some money, show a feed of a Max Headroom type character spewing generic platitudes. It's what New America demands.