White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that the Trump administration has received over 10,000 submissions requesting “new media seat” credentials in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
Leavitt detailed the massive influx of submissions to a packed room of reporters during the briefing on Friday, days after she announced the seat would designated for members of “new media.”
“This White House has received more than 10,000 submissions from individuals across the country who are eager to join all of you–we might have to make this room a little bit bigger to do that–who want to participate in our new media seat at a future briefing,” she said.
During her first White House press briefing on Tuesday, Leavitt detailed that a seat traditionally reserved for her staff would be opened up 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, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House,” she added. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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