LONDON - Some prominent British and international media organizations pushed back Friday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of a prerecorded video message to mark Britain’s departure from the European Union. Johnson’s press team broke with usual procedures by refusing to allow independent media outlets to film or photograph the statement. His office planned to make the video available on the prime minister’s official Facebook page and distributed it via email to news outlets. Decisions by politicians to eliminate the media from the process, often facilitated by the broad appeal of social media, are becoming more common. No media organizations were present when the chiefs of two of the European Union’s main institutions signed the Brexit divorce agreement.

Source: thestar February 01, 2020 00:57 UTC