Sean Spicer’s attorney is demanding that Mediaite retract an article and apologize for what they describe as a “highly defamatory” story about Puck News Senior Political Correspondent Tara Palmeri, as first reported by the Daily Caller.
The outlet reviewed a letter sent by Spicer’s lawyer to Aidan McLaughlin, the Editor in Chief of Mediaite, on Tuesday. The contentious article, titled “Scoop Machine Tara Palmeri on How She Gets The Story (And Stays Sane),” alleges that Spicer, during his tenure as White House Press Secretary, denied Palmeri a press badge. Palmeri was a Politico journalist at the time.
Mediaite reported:
Palmeri, who served previously as a White House correspondent for ABC News and a co-author of Politico Playbook, has faced backlash in the past for, as she puts it, “merely reporting facts.”
During then-President Donald Trump’s first term, Palmeri angered then-press secretary Sean Spicer with her coverage of the White House. Spicer refused to give her a press badge – which Palmeri said forced her to find creative ways to cover the administration.
“I couldn’t get a press credential when Spicer was the press secretary,” she recalled. “So I just had to report from the outside, from the outer circle and get in. I was breaking big stories, though it turns out you don’t need to be sitting in the briefing room every day asking questions in front of a camera and get everyone getting those stories, which I think are very important. But for me, I was actually adding more value on the outside and I think Spicer knew it and he just didn’t know how to control it. So he thought, I’ll punish her.” […]
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