Eric Boehlert: White House reporters push back -- just in time for Biden

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2. Daily Beast is also guilty, as is

faux by jumping on the band wagon. From the article...

Yet just weeks in, some reporters are banding together and suggesting there's something nefarious afoot. According to a rather breathless account from The Daily Beast, "The new president’s communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings."

Presented as deeply troubling, the report suggested the Biden team is trying to manipulate the press and pull one over on the American people. "The press can't really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions they want,” said one anonymous White House correspondent said. “That's not really a free press at all.” The journalist added that the White House's procedure "pissed off enough reporters" for the White House Correspondents Association to take note of it.

Fox News eagerly played up the story on Tuesday, claiming that inquiring about possible press questions, "makes them look unprepared."