yesterday the new White House Press Secretary Carolyn levit gave her very first press conference where she announced that they're adding extra seats to the briefing room take a look it's essential to our team that we share president Trump's message everywhere and adapt this White House to the New Media landscape in 2025 this White House believes strongly in the First Amendment so it's why our team will work diligently to restore the Press passes of the 440 journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by the previous administration we're also opening up this briefing room to New Media voices
who produce news related content and whose Outlet is not already represented by one of the seats in this room we welcome independent journalists podcasts social media influencers and content creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House this seat in the front of the room which is usually occupied by the press secretary staff will be called the new me media seat my team will review the applications and give credentials to New Media applicants who meet our criteria and pass United States secret service requirements to enter the White House complex all right what' she say
she basically said that she was they were going to give unqualified how boring unqualified people podcast needs to apply for White House credentials oh they'd love having joy in that room I got a question so wait a so in other words instead of Bob Woodward they want Kim Kardashian what I don't get it okay I I have a question which is why I was leading Us in this direction oh yeah I would like this young lady who's this is her first job I would like her to do a little homework because she said something yesterday
that really pissed me off and that was she said there will be no wokeness here oh yeah let me explain something to you because without that wokeness you might not have that job yeah because because women were not invited to that table women were not invited to many tables in this nation the reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn't have to worry about this and now to hear you talk about it and to hear anybody talk about the wokeness the wokness was put in place for a reason because black
people couldn't get into colleges because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to this is all women yeah see this is not black Asian this is all women women were not invited to this party it was a man's world and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person's world so please please stop using that phrase you're talking about because you don't understand what you're saying you're saying about yourself that you know hey that's a Terri terrible thing to be it's not a terrible thing to be that's why
we fought that's what we were fighting for so that you could stand in that Podium so that uh je Katherine jeampier could stand at that Podium so women of all kinds of colors and ilks wherever they came from whatever their belief system was they had the opportunity to bust down that door I just by way I think she's probably been put in there because according to Donald Trump she's a 10 you know that's what it is I want to be clear though it's not her first job it was her first press briefing she worked in
the previous saying is the first time that she may be but my point is that job would not maybe have been open to her I want to clarify that um but on the issue of the New Media because I actually think this is kind of brilliant and I think future Democratic administrate white houses should do the same thing we're realizing this election how people consume media has drastically changed this was The Joe Rogan Theo V Alex Cooper election it wasn't mainstream old school media that was driving people's interest in what they were following in the
stories they were and I think this is an acknowledgement that Trump realizes this this is a person who made his career in television what's to prevent those media influences from being only on his side well there will be Parsons but I think it was promising that they brought in axios which is mainstream but then they brought in Breitbart which is a right-wing outlet and so some of the outlets that had their passes revoked when Biden came in were right of Center Outlets I don't have a problem with part Aran Outlets being there as long as
it's representative of both sides and you have non-biased traditional media there as well and that it's fact driven how they cover it the problem that I have with it though is you know she's saying that these people that are going to apply will meet their criteria we understand that their criteria is woefully deficient and unserious I think that their real problem in this election one of the real problems among me the many is the misinformation and disinformation that was disseminated on social media by these influencers and by these podcasters why are they qualified to sit
in front in in the White House briefing room and tell America what is going on with the country I traditionally to become a White House correspondent or to be in that briefing room you had to have a journalism degree you had to have qualifications so I guess the rise of mediocrity is here they're making they're making a Snapchat equivalent to the New York Times you guys minimizing something really important here there was a time where there were three evening broadcasts for news everyone sat down around the TV and they watched these three news outlets now
you look at where people consume news 54% of American adults say they get news from social media a large majority a large majority of us adults 86% say they get at least some of their information if you don't want Miss and disinformation which is inevitable obviously with this Administration but if you want to go directly to the source and have people receive it themselves and put it out to their audiences I'd rather have them in that room influencers are not just the Kardashians they're also the B bne Browns you've got podcasts like pod Saves America
they are people that only consume their news from show up and I do there are a lot of Americans who do feel like the mainstream media got a lot wrong in recent years and while there are editorial standards I don't think that we can definitively say because you have this degree and you're with this Outlet you've never gotten news information wrong well I I I will say this I F I feel a lot better when I know there are standards people have to meet yeah of course so qualific you can bring in you can bring
in whoever you want it the the truth will the the proof will be in the pudding we can stand and say this is terrible but but so we gonna wait and see what happens and the minute it turns out to be state run television or statun information or state run news because you know I I don't I I disagree that people got stuff wrong people were I don't know what people were looking for because the people I talked to uh were not looking for the things that these folks were looking for and now that they've
got him are they getting what they want so that's just my just it's just my opinion but even on the media front we haven't gotten to this real quickly this week the the CIA came out and said that covid very likely came from a lab leak and the New York Times shut down coverage of that they wouldn't publish an oped by a senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton saying that this was a credential Theory at the time I was at DOD and that was openly discussed is a very real possibility there is a fact there is
a fact that the media at times has gotten things wrong it isn't about whether they get it wrong or right it's what they do to correct it that's the problem does matter well that's what that's what I'm saying that's what I want but it also matters that the CIA said that it was a low confidence report and that is why the New York Times which has standards didn't report on but that but withholding the information Al together purely be and saying that it's not even a considered theory was what the mistake was it's the mistake
really is there's too much BS floating out there and now it's out of our hands there's no way to control it so now they're saying they're going to control it I want to see what they're going to do I want to see who they're going to invite into this because quite honestly I like when we're held to standards I don't always like the way they do it but we have to we have to have ourselves together we can't just say stuff in spite of what they tell you we can't just spout stuff so I want
that for everybody and if they're going to guarantee that there at the at the briefing that I'll be happy
