Some journalists are calling new press standards implemented by White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a mass purge of the press corps. We get more on the story from NBC News Radio. Mike bauer. Huckabee senators revoked the press credentials known as a hard pass for all Washington Post reporters assigned to cover the White House and many others that new standard designated as unqualified almost the entire White House. Press corps and did this over objections from news organizations and the White House correspond. Indi- association that new standard no credentials to any journalist who's not in the building at least ninety out of the previous one hundred eighty days. In other words, seven of every ten work days in the White House would not provide numbers, but appears that most White House. Press corps didn't qualify for credentials into the new standard, including regulars for the post and the