Colorado House Republicans distribute list of “friendly” and “not friendly” media outlets – By Jesse Paul (Colorado Sun) / May 14 2021
House Minority Leader Hugh McKean, a Loveland Republican, defended the list, saying it was created at the behest of a member who wanted to know how to best navigate the Capitol media landscape.
A few weeks ago, leadership in the Colorado House Republican caucus handed out a list of media outlets to their members. But instead of just titles, mediums, phone numbers and email addresses, there was an untitled column with one of two descriptors: “friendly” and “not friendly.”
Six outlets, including The Colorado Sun, The Denver Post, Colorado Public Radio, Axios Denver, Colorado Newsline and 9News, were listed as unfriendly, according to a copy of the list obtained by The Sun’s politics newsletter, The Unaffiliated.
Seven others, including The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and television station KDVR-TV, were listed as friendly.
The Colorado Sun checked with the three other caucuses in the legislature and their respective spokespeople. All said they don’t have a similar list denoting whether a media outlet is friendly. There may be mental notes about which reporters are better to work with than others, but no written list, Capitol veterans say.
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