Jake Tapper, then a White House correspondent for ABC News, confronted Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, during the daily briefing: “It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations ‘not a news organization’ and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?”
