Senate weighs restricting reporters during Trump impeachment trial
The Senate is weighing significant restrictions on reporters covering the upcoming impeachment trial, including limiting the movements of reporters and upping security screenings for the press.
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The Senate is weighing significant restrictions on reporters covering the upcoming impeachment trial, including limiting the movements of reporters and upping security screenings for the press.
The Standing Committee of Correspondents, an elected body of journalists that govern and advocate for print media, wrote to Senate leaders on Tuesday "vigorously" objecting to the proposed restrictions, which the group said included forcing reporters into penned areas and barring them from walking freely around outside the Senate chambers.
They said it was not clear how the proposed rules added to safety "rather than simply limit coverage of the trial."
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The group's chair, Sarah Wire, argued against the proposed restrictions in a Twitter thread.
"Installing a magnetometer means the Senate trial will have a soundtrack of 'beep, beep, beep' as 90+ reporters walk in and out all day," she wrote. "There is no additional safety or security brought by bringing such a device into reporter work space. It also gives the impression that it is being done mostly to protect Senators from the bright light of the public knowing what they are doing in one of the country’s most important moments."
You never know Larry, could be some rogue reporter with evil intent embedded within those 90+. Better be safe than sorry.
Am I correct in that the Senators will not be allowed to have phones or other electronic devices within the chamber.
I am sure this event will be as fully reported as the House investigation was.
From the article:
Electronics are currently banned from the Senate chamber, and reporters had unsuccessfully sought an exemption to the rule for the historic trial.
So yes, electronics are banned
It's just an effort to keep trumps crimes from reaching the public.If they can't dispute the crimes and cannot suppress witness testimony, just keep it all under wraps so the public is left in the dark. My first question is, "why suppress the testimony if trump is completely innocent"?
Yup. Reporters = witnesses.
If (when) damning evidence is brought up during the trial, it is a lot harder for Republican Senators to ignore it when you have a room full of reporters documenting your responses.
What ever and doesn't matter.
For what ever reasons that have yet to be explained, the Stormy Who cult must protect 'this president' by every means possible.