Chris0nllyn
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The White House blocked most of the media from attending an off-camera briefing on Friday several hours after the president called some of them 'fake news.'
Press Secretary Sean Spicer canceled a planned, on-camera briefing and held a private briefing inside his office that was open to only certain reporters.
Among the outlets allowed in were Breitbart News, the previous employer of chief strategist Steve Bannon. Others to be allowed access were Fox News.
The ones banned included DailyMail.com, the BBC, the New York Times, Politico, and CNN - which hours earlier President Trump had called the Clinton News Network.
Spicer allowed in what is known as the White House 'pool', a rotation of reporters who report on behalf of all outlets, and then hand-picked who else he let in .
CBS was the news network that was assigned to represent all the major networks today as part of what is known at the television pool.
ABC, NBC and Fox News were all allowed in. So was One America News Network.
That left CNN banned. Other broadcasters from abroad also kept out, including BBC and Al Jazeera.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4257770/WH-locks-certain-reporters-briefing.html