The White House blocked a number of news organizations from attending an informal briefing on Friday, and a surprising move by President Trump's came in front of the war against the media.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer banned reporters from CNN, the New York Times, Politico, the Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed from attending a "gaggle", a non-televised briefing, but gave access to a number of other reporters.
The decision was not made to exclude journalists from organizations that have been the most critical of Trump in their reporting in favor of those who are more favorable said by The White House.
And the invited included - Fox News, Breitbart and the Washington Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Time and the Associated Press.
However, reporters from AP and Time decided against attending the briefing in protest of the exclusion of other outlets.
Trump made lambasting the media a regular feature of his presidential campaign - and banned about a dozen news organizations from covering his rallies - but he seemed to ratchet up his rhetoric last week, tweeting that various news outlets were "the enemy of the American people".
Also Read:-
BHIP app's download count reaches 17m, cracked world record
CNG recall will boost the market, list of cars to be recall
MRTH announced new format of reporting road accidents