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March 16, 2017

Tillerson Travels to Asia with Only 1 Reporter from New Conservative Outlet
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Reporters are expressing outrage over the State Department's decision to
allow only one reporter to travel with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
on his trip to Asia. The only reporter allowed to travel with Tillerson
was Erin Mc Pike of the conservative news outlet the Independent Journal
Review, which was founded by two Republican political consultants. Mc
Pike has only been working for the outlet for a few weeks, and she
doesn't typically even cover the State Department.


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