[See NewsBusters for more.] HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Date was a guest on Friday's CNN Newsroom to discuss the news that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 and used the opportunity to hype his anti-Trump book and re-write the history of the pandemic.
However, nobody asked Date to do this. Host Jim Sciutto offered up a harsh, but fair criticism of the White House that they did not do enough to inform the press corps that they might have been exposed, "S.V., I just want to ask you, given the lack of a fulsome sharing of information here, but also habits in the White House, do you feel that was unfair to your health, the health of the staff around the president? CNN is reporting that the staff is concerned this morning about this, the White House staff."