The reporter who plunged Jen Psaki’s final briefing as White House press secretary into chaos Friday by loudly accusing her of allowing only a few journalists to ask questions has been warned by the White House Correspondents Association to cut it out or risk getting kicked out, according to a new report.Simon Ateba, the chief White House correspondent for Today News Africa, caused an uproar Friday when he repeatedly yelled at Psaki: “Why don’t you take questions from across the room? Because that’s not what you’ve done for the past 15 months” shortly after she had given emotional thank-yous to White House colleagues and members of the media to mark her last day on the job. Ateba was eventually persuaded to calm down, but not before he had been scolded by NPR reporter Tamara Keith as well as Psaki herself.
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