White House’s Favored Reporter’s Outlet Took Payments For Covering Trump
Brian Glenn was the one who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn’t wearing a suit. RSBN, the “news” outlet he helped build, has taken $192,000 from Trump.
Brian Glenn was the one who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn’t wearing a suit. RSBN, the “news” outlet he helped build, has taken $192,000 from Trump.
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“… Over those years, the outlet took $92,000 in “broadcast” fees, first from Trump’s Save America committee and then from Trump’s campaign, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission filings.
… Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as “production” costs, and then pointed to the row of television cameras set up in the back of the White House briefing room.
“Who pays for them?” he asked, suggesting that the major networks like NBC,
CNN and Fox also accept money from the entities they cover.
In fact, taking such payments would be considered a serious ethical breach among reputable news outlets. The television networks covering this and previous White Houses, as well as print and radio outlets, all pay their own expenses when covering political events, as does HuffPost.
Indeed, the Trump administration, including the White House, has falsely accused legitimate news organizations of corruption because government agencies, even those in the first Trump term, bought subscriptions from them, including some to expensive, lobbyist-oriented trade publications.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary who had worked on Trump’s campaign, also acknowledged the payments.
“The Trump campaign paid RSBN for the usage of their live stream,” she said.
She did not address HuffPost’s question regarding the ethics of an outlet accepting money from the subject it was covering. …”