A lot of bad blood has surfaced among reporters at the White House since President Donald Trump started his second term.
It’s essentially because old-school and legacy agencies and their reporters suddenly were informed that members of the new media, podcasters and such, also would be given access to presidential briefings.
That means those reporters assigned to the White House by the traditional publications and networks are being given access like other reporters, and are seeing their privileged positions and inordinate times reduced.
The conflict reached a takedown point when a CNN employee, Donie O’Sullivan, confronted a member of the new media with the charge those individuals are not “real journalists,” and demanded a response.
He got one:
CNN: “Are you a real journalist?”
Natalie: “The rest of the media covered for a president that was essentially dead. You failed. That’s why new media is here.” pic.twitter.com/ok5YtruWRt
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) April 23, 2025
Natalie Winters of War Room explained, ““Well, I’m pretty sure the group of people in there spent what was it four years covering for someone who was essentially dead, and that’s being charitable in my description of a former president by the name of Joe Biden.
“So to all those people who are apoplectic over having new media voices, you guys failed, and that’s why we’re here!”
O’Sullivan had asked, “To the people, and I’m sure you see this online every single day, who say you don’t deserve to be here because you are not a real journalist, what’s your response to them?”
It was the Gateway Pundit that explained O’Sullivan “lives in the CNN bubble” and that’s he was “unsure whether Winters was an actual journalist.”
The report noted that on the network, “ignorance is widespread.”
