“There is a word for that: un-American” – @jaketapper tears apart the WH’s blocking of outlets https://t.co/AL562BcjVF pic.twitter.com/smOdRHCebB

— Colin Jones (@colinjones) February 24, 2017

In one of the unprecedented moves in a President’s history against the media, reporters from several news organizations — including The New York Times, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, and Politico — were denied entry to a press briefing at the White House this afternoon.

However, the gaggle (or informal Q&A) between White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did include reporters from The Washington Times, Breitbart, and One America News Network, as well as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fox News, ABC News, and CBS News.

As a response to the block, Time and the Associated Press decided to boycott the gaggle, reports The Daily Beast.

“AP believes the public should have as much access to the president as possible,” the Associated Press said in a statement.

White House spokeswoman Sarah H. Sanders defended the block, citing the reason was to make sure “everyone was represented.” They decided to add a “couple of additional people beyond the pool for an expanded pool. Nothing more than that.”

CNN said in a statement, “This is an unacceptable development by the Trump White House. Apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don’t like. We’ll keep reporting regardless.”

Executive Editor of The New York Times, Dean Banquet, said, “Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”

Editor in chief of BuzzFeed Ben Smith wrote “We won’t let these latest antics distract us from continuing to cover this administration fairly and aggressively.”

While The Wall Street Journal was invited to the gaggle, Hadas Gold of Politico, tweeted: “WSJ says they would not have participated in gaggle had they known of the blocking of others and said they won’t in future.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper was clearly unhappy. Watch the video above.