Christopher Leon Johnson criticizes press-access disparities and influencer favoritism
Johnson says he supports the bills and the new executive director but criticizes the administration for moving press-pass goalposts. He says influencers get access while regular reporters are denied and that the administration retaliates against unflattering coverage.
Thank you very much.
The next is Hinaadi Nadi from Sun Africa Radio and Christopher Leon Johnson.
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WBI has a paid SAG after staff of five master control engineers, one news director, a program director, several interns, and dozens of other outlets.
WBI has a paid SAG after staff of five master control engineers, one news director, a program director, several interns, and dozens of other outlets.
Hello.
Hello, Chair Brewer.
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
I want to say this right now that, look, I support this 100%.
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I know that you care about this.
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I know that the new executive director cares about this.
But the issue here is that the city council haven't asked.
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Like what's up with the mom situation where, um, where people try to pop a press passes, boom, move the goalposts of who gets them, who doesn't get them.
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Um, I want to know why is that when an influencer covers a certain event, it gets approved, but a regular person covered the same event,
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WBI has a paid SAG after staff of five master control engineers, one news director, a program director, several interns, and dozens of other outlets.
The goalposts get moved.
I want to say this right now that this administration, when it comes to media access, they're like the worst.
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It's all about influencers and that's it.
And who could do cringy TikTok videos more than real journalism.
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More than that's that's what's going on here.
The big issue is that this administration is known for retaliating against people that gives them unflattered coverage.
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And going forward, I know there's going to be more hearings about this.
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They need to start asking questions to members of MoM.
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About like, uh,
What is the real criteria of getting the media pass?
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Because if you cover six events at one spot, how does one reporter get approved for a couple of the same events, but somebody else doesn't get approved?
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Like, what's the real criteria?
And basically, you know, this mayor administration needs to start giving respect to the ethnic media, people that know how to do journalism, not just people that know how to exploit AI and chat TBT to
WBI has a paid SAG after staff of five master control engineers, one news director, a program director, several interns, and dozens of other outlets.
WBI has a paid SAG after staff of five master control engineers, one news director, a program director, several interns, and dozens of other outlets.
get a point across with the social media influencers.
So going forward, I support these bills 100 percent.
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And thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I'm sorry we called you earlier.
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I apologize.
No problem.
Go ahead.