Conservative Media Outlet Complains Its Reporters Are Excluded From Government Press Events — Get a Load of the Government’s Response

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Blaze:

A conservative Canadian media outlet says it plans to file suit against the government of Alberta following incidents in recent weeks in which its reporters were excluded from government-organized media events. At one event, its journalist was escorted out of the legislature by a sheriff.

 

The Rebel media group suspects it is being blackballed over its political leanings, and one of its reporters told TheBlaze that there’s a lesson in their experience for American conservatives who want to protect liberties like freedom of the press for a wide spectrum of political opinions.

 

The Rebel said that the first incident occurred Jan. 29 when two of its journalists were kicked out of a closed-door Alberta government technical briefing known as a media lock-up.

 

Days later, on Feb. 3, The Rebel’s Alberta bureau chief, Sheila Gunn Reid, went to the Alberta Legislature building to cover a joint press conference with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

 

She said that she was told at the check-in desk that her organization was on a “no-go” list for the event and that the order had come from the premier’s office.

 

Reid was then escorted by a sheriff out of the building, preventing her from covering the press conference, as described in a letter from The Rebel’s attorney.

 

Premier Notley — who serves a role similar to that of a U.S. state governor — also heads the Alberta branch of the left-wing New Democratic Party.

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Some media outlets are more equal than others...

[Valin]

 

She said that she was told at the check-in desk that her organization was on a “no-go” list for the event and that the order had come from the premier’s office.

 

 

Well That's a shock. A leftist PM doesn't want to deal with a conservative site/org. Reminds me of a certain President of the United States going to war with Fox News.