FACT: March 16, 2020 - Upon new Coronavirus Precautionary Guidelines, the Private Club WHCA announced every other seat in the briefing room was to be vacated to maintain social distancing between reporters. @OANN was to share with one other network. 
FACT: March 19, 2020, @OANN's Chanel Rion asked @realDonaldTrump the following question in the Press Briefing room challenging the media's consistent broadcasting of propaganda narratives from foreign state actors:
c-span.org/video/?c486606…
c-span.org/video/?c486606…
Upon returning to my desk I found the following note anonymously placed:
To which I responded:
FACT: Two days later, March 21, 2020, @OANN’s @JennPellegrino drew into question an article by The Washington Post, challenging the Post's narrative: c-span.org/video/?c486606…
FACT: The next day, Sunday, March 22, 2020, the WHCA's (private club) board members assembled for emergency vote. The private club mandated @OANN's seat now accommodate FIVE networks.
Meanwhile all other seats remained untouched. Illustrated below:
Meanwhile all other seats remained untouched. Illustrated below:
The Private Club (WHCA) "voted" in retaliation for @OANN's questions challenging their media members' narratives.
FACT: By afternoon, Monday, March 23rd @OANN was forced to rotate with NINE other networks under guise an unnamed member of the press corps diagnosed positive for CoVID-19.
OAN was essentially removed from the briefing room.
This infected member has yet to be identified.
OAN was essentially removed from the briefing room.
This infected member has yet to be identified.
April 1, 2020, WHCA Private Club (of which Chanel Rion is NOT a member), voted to "remove" @OANN from the once every 10 day rotation in WH Briefing Room altogether.
WHCA retaliated against OAN for asking questions with which WHCA members disagreed.
WHCA retaliated against OAN for asking questions with which WHCA members disagreed.
FACT: April 2, 2020, the White House invited Chanel Rion to stand in the briefing room in defiance of Private Club WHCA's retaliatory actions.
@OANN attended the White House Briefing, standing in the back, socially distanced, at the invitation of the White House.
@OANN attended the White House Briefing, standing in the back, socially distanced, at the invitation of the White House.
CONCLUSION:
The WHCA (a private club), isolated @OANN because we asked questions they did not like.
Unlike other WHCA members OAN airs ALL WH Taskforce Briefings in full without commercial breaks and will continue to do so during this National Emergency.
The WHCA (a private club), isolated @OANN because we asked questions they did not like.
Unlike other WHCA members OAN airs ALL WH Taskforce Briefings in full without commercial breaks and will continue to do so during this National Emergency.
