Even C-SPAN Is Piqued: Senate Puts Limits on Trial Coverage
The U.S. Capitol Building dome is reflected in Washington, Jan. 15, 2020. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)/ News coverage of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate began last week with a Republican senator calling a CNN reporter “a liberal hack” in the halls of Congress and laughing about it later that night during a Fox News interview. Journalists are up in arms about new restrictions on their movement inside the Capitol, which they said will prevent them from easily interviewing lawmakers about the proceedings. The ...
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