Kaitlan Collins

Another CNN big lie. Meanwhile, other media outlets immediately circled the wagons and attacked the White House. Disgraceful. https://t.co/D26p9pZ1ZI

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 26, 2018

From The Daily Wire:

To hear the liberal media tell it, the horrible Trump administration, bent on destroying the First Amendment, has barred a legitimate journalist from covering the White House.

Or as The New York Times put it: "The White House barred a CNN journalist from attending a public appearance by President Trump in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, an apparent act of retaliation that drew immediate rebuke from news organizations and signaled the latest escalation of Mr. Trump’s hostilities toward the news media."

But once again, that's not the full story (and just for the record, a lie of omission is still a lie).

The Times quotes Kaitlan Collins, a White House correspondent for CNN, saying she was chastised for asking “inappropriate” questions. “They did not like the questions I asked President Trump about the news of the day,” Collins said.

That, she claimed, led to the White House barring her from the following press event in the White House Rose Garden.

But White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders offered a very different account.

“At the conclusion of a press event in the Oval Office a reporter shouted questions and refused to leave despite repeatedly being asked to do so,” Sanders said in a statement. “Subsequently, our staff informed her she was not welcome to participate in the next event, but made clear that any other journalist from her network could attend."

She "refused to leave" the Oval Office.

Far different from the versions you're hearing in the MSM. And Collins herself noted that CNN wasn't barred from the event. She said on CNN that she was told, "We're not banning your network. Your photographers can still come. Your producers can still come. But you are not invited to the Rose Garden today."

...“To be clear, we support a free press and ask that everyone be respectful of the presidency and guests at the White House," Sanders said.

A free press doesn't mean reporters are free to behave boorishly.

Collins being told she was not welcome to participate in the next event at the White House wasn't an assault on the First Amendment. It was a consequence of her inappropriate behavior. She needs to take responsibility for that.