‘I don’t like bullies’: Reporter explains why he confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders

The following article by Kristine Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website June 28, 2017:

Brian Karem, the reporter who confronted deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a news briefing, said he did so because he’s had enough of the Trump administration’s bullying of the media.

“I don’t like bullies and I don’t like the entire situation of the press and free speech being castigated for no other reason than we either get stories wrong — which happens, and it should be then responsibly corrected — or because we report news the president doesn’t like — which seems to happen even more often than getting stories wrong,” Karem, executive editor of two Maryland newspapers, wrote in a column explaining his outburst during the Tuesday briefing. Continue reading “‘I don’t like bullies’: Reporter explains why he confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders”