Sean Spicer, who was spokesman for the Republican National Committee, and now serves as Trump’s press secretary, told Richard Johnson from news site PageSix, “I support whatever security measures are recommended by the Secret Service.”
Last week Trump called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage,” but that would be less severe than urinating in a cup for a hot seat in the press room.
The suggestion was one of 13 proposals revealed in a confidential memo to members of the Presidential Transition Team’s Executive Committee.
“Journalists who are at the White House more than one day per week should be subject to drug screenings to occur no more than twice a year at random times,” the memo states. “Refusal to comply should exclude them from credentialing entirely.”
The job applicant also proposed taking away the right of the White House Correspondents’ Association to control reporters’ seating arrangements in the press briefing room.
The current system favors TV networks and certain newspapers at the expense of more ideologically diverse Web sites, bloggers and podcasters, Johnson says.
The Trump administration is already communicating via Twitter, in a bold move to bypass a hostile mainstream press, after the Obama administration pushed through a little-known bill rolled into the NDAA, which will create a national propaganda center.
Press freedom advocates are raising alarm over the creation of the the new information agency under the Propaganda Act which appears to be an attempt to bail out failing MSM outlets struggling to compete with the alternative media.
Journalist Adam H. Johnson tweeted that “Obama signed NDAA … which creates ‘global engagement center’ to counter ‘state & nonstate’ ‘foreign propaganda'”
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