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Conservative website only media on Tillerson plane to Asia

FILE PHOTO - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks on issues related to visas and travel after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban order in Washington, U.S. on March 6, 2017
The State Department had previously told reporters covering Rex Tillerson’s trip that he would not be taking reporters on his plane.
Mar 15, 2017
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew to Asia accompanied by only one journalist on his aircraft, a reporter from a website founded by former Republican political operatives, in a departure from decades of practice.
Tillerson, who became the top U.S. diplomat under Republican President Donald Trump in February, traveled to Mexico and Germany last month with a small contingent of journalists, including a "pool" reporter who informed colleagues of Tillerson's statements or actions.
The journalist on Tillerson's plane that arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday, Erin McPike of the Independent Journal Review (IJR), was not acting as a pool reporter.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tillerson-asia-media-idUSKBN16M0C4 [also at/subhead taken from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tillerson-asia-trip-media_us_58c8eeabe4b022994fa33453 (with embedded video)]

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