This day in WND History: Sept. 9

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Sept. 9, 2002: Irony can be … well, ironic.

In 2002, WND’s long battle for press credentials to cover Congress like 300 other daily news organizations was being stymied by a small group of gatekeepers known as the Standing Committee of Correspondents for the Senate Daily Press Gallery. The chairman of the committee keeping WND from bringing its readers the news was a correspondent for Bloomberg News.

Ironically – there’s that word – Michael Bloomberg, founder of the news service bearing his name, had his own long battle for his reporters to be given credentials to cover Congress. Indeed, Bloomberg’s experience, chronicled in a book he authored, was almost identical to WND’s.

But after he got into the club and his people became the gatekeepers, the door was shut against WND with the same excuses used to stonewall him.

Ironic, isn’t it?

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