Non-traditional media, TikTokers tout applying for White House Press passes: 'The right thing'

Nontraditional media and respective TikTok influencers who usage the societal media level to speech astir quality said they would beryllium applying to beryllium a newsman successful the briefing country this week aft White House property caput Karoline Leavitt announced determination would beryllium a designated spot successful the briefing country for autarkic oregon caller media.

"The thought of opening the White House property briefings to organizations beyond the bequest media is the close happening to do," ex-CNN writer Chris Cillizza wrote successful a Substack post. 

As respective journalists person opted to utilize Substack, others person utilized TikTok to stock quality oregon speech astir news. Leavitt besides suggested that podcasters use to what she described arsenic the "new media" seat.

"I very overmuch hope, however, that the Trump White House doesn’t conscionable (or mostly) o.k. only quality creators who are predictably successful favour of their partisan views. If they privation to bash a 1 and 1 arsenic they did connected Tuesday — 1 partisan quality outlet (Breitbart) and 1 much nonpartisan outlet (Axios) — that would beryllium good with me. In information that would beryllium great — whether I was ever the typical for the nonpartisan media," Cilizza wrote.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt announced determination would beryllium a designated spot successful the briefing country for autarkic oregon caller media. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Leavitt told reporters during her archetypal briefing these changes were being made to support successful enactment with President Donald Trump's "revolutionary media approach" that helium deployed during his run successful speaking to fashionable podcast hosts and societal media influencers.

"In keeping with this revolutionary media approach that President Trump deployed during the campaign, the Trump White House volition talk to each media outlets and personalities, not conscionable the bequest media who are seated successful this room," she explained.

The Daily Wire reported that the White House had received implicit 7,000 applications for the caller media spot aft the announcement.

Leavitt told reporters during her archetypal briefing that changes were being made to support successful enactment with President Donald Trump's "revolutionary media approach." (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

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Democratic influencer Harry Sisson, a vocal protagonist of erstwhile President Joe Biden and erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris, posted connected TikTok that helium was applying for a property pass, but had his doubts astir whether helium would beryllium allowed successful the briefing room.

Sisson argued that autarkic media should person a spot astatine the table, but wondered however the White House would determine who would get the caller media seat, and whether he, a Democrat, would beryllium allowed to inquire a question.

Host of "The Ruthless Podcast," Josh Ashbrook, became the archetypal podcaster to ask a question successful the briefing room. Ashbrook asked Leavitt if the media was retired of touch.

"In your archetypal briefing, the media went aft this medication for deporting amerciable immigrants they claimed were not criminals," Ashbrook began. "The question is, bash you deliberation they're retired of interaction with Americans demanding enactment connected our borderline crisis?"

Ashbook, a erstwhile run strategist to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shed airy connected what it was like to beryllium successful the briefing room during an quality connected "The Will Cain Show" that afternoon. 

President Donald Trump speaks successful the James Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, successful Washington.  (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)

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"I've interacted with a batch of these aforesaid reporters arsenic a property caput backmost successful the day. So, erstwhile I walked into the room, I saw a batch of oculus rolls and a batch of smirks and that is precisely what I was hoping for, Will," Ashbrook told Fox News' Will Cain. 

Ashbrook besides praised the White House's clasp of "new media," saying Leavitt and her squad are making definite that "we the radical person a dependable wrong that room." 

"It's a brand-new time successful the media," helium said. Others besides praised the determination connected societal media.

Other influencers, specified arsenic Ivan Gutierrez, a TikToker with 1.2 cardinal followers who posts regularly astir the news, besides announced they would beryllium applying to person a spot successful the briefing room. 

Gutierrez said helium was hopeful to station a video straight from the briefing country should his exertion get accepted. 

Another TikTok quality account, UnderTheDeskNews, tally by V Spehar, who has collaborated with Biden and erstwhile President Barack Obama connected the societal media app, besides praised the seat, but announced they would not beryllium applying for a pass.

"But what I volition accidental is having a caller media spot successful that country is incredibly smart, and precise clever and decidedly needed," Spehar said successful the post. "And I deliberation the White House Correspondence Association and their effort to perpetually stiff-arm caller media missed an accidental here, due to the fact that that spot should person been overseen by the White House Correspondence Association. It should person been a peer-led offering, but it's not." 

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