US Treasury Bars Certain Journalists from G20 Meeting in North Carolina The latest move by the US Treasury Department to restrict media access at the G20 finance meeting in North Carolina adds another brick to the wall built by President Donald Trump's administration to shield their actions from public scrutiny.
The decision to deny credentials to reporters from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg may seem like a minor bureaucratic matter, but it reveals a deeper trend of eroding press freedom and transparency that has been unfolding for years.
The Treasury Department claims the denial is unrelated to the journalists' viewpoints, but this assertion is difficult to accept given the administration's long history of targeting critical media outlets.