Media bunches have responded indignantly after a few, including the BBC, were banned from casual instruction with White House Squeeze Secretary Sean Spicer.
The avoided New York Times said the move was "an unmistakable affront to majority rule beliefs".
The bar came hours after President Donald Trump conveyed another assault on the media, saying that "fake news" was the "foe of the general population".
The BBC has requested that the White House elucidate its prohibition.
BBC authority boss in Washington, Paul Danahar, stated: "We comprehend that there might be events when, because of space or conditions, the White House confines squeeze occasions to the set up pool. Be that as it may, what happened today did not fit into that example."
He included: "Our detailing will stay reasonable and fair-minded, notwithstanding."
Friday's advising had been planned as an on-camera occasion in the preparation room however was changed to a casual off-camera occasion, known as a "gaggle", in Mr Spicer's office.
Disclosing the move to go off-camera, he stated: "We don't by and large do, we haven't done briefings when the president's had a noteworthy occasion."
Mr Spicer said an "extended" pool of columnists had been welcome to the gaggle. Pools are normal - the columnists going to then impart their answering to the White House squeeze corps.
In any case, the decision of those going to, including bunches seen as neighborly to the Trump organization, and the way that different columnists who made a request to go to were denied passage drew judgment from media bunches.
White House Correspondents' Association President Jeff Mason said it was "dissenting firmly".
The BBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, the Daily Mail and Politico were among those barred.
Those permitted into the room included ABC, Fox News, Breitbart News, Reuters and the Washington Times.
The Associated Press, USA Today and Time magazine declined to go to as a dissent against the move.
Both the Washington Post and McClatchy said they were ignorant of the avoidances at the time and that had they known, their columnists would not have gone to the gaggle.
Both said they would not take an interest in future briefings if the avoidances proceeded.
A grapple for Fox News, seen as steady of the Trump administration, additionally uncovered resistance to the move.
Bret Baier tweeted: "We joined w/all systems in a protest to WH about the episode."
At the point when asked at the gaggle, Mr Spicer denied CNN and the New York Times had been denied get to in light of the fact that the White House was troubled with their scope.
Be that as it may, he stated: "We are recently not going to kick back and let false accounts, false stories, erroneous actualities get out there."
CNN grapple Jake Tapper said the prohibition was "not satisfactory, in reality it's peevish. Also, characteristic of an absence of essential comprehension of how a grown-up White House capacities".
Washington Post official manager Marty Baron said the White House move was "horrifying".
In an article, the LA Times stated: "If the expectation was to threaten columnists into composing less things that the organization dislikes, and more things that it does, it is destined to disappointment."
The New York Times article stated: "That First Amendment can be badly arranged for anybody aching for power without investigation. Mr. Trump might need to look over what it implies, and get accustomed to it."
Hours before the instructions, Mr Trump had conveyed a solid assault on what he called "fake news" in the media, focusing on stories with anonymous sources.
He told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that correspondents "shouldn't be permitted to utilize sources unless they utilize some individual's name. Give their name a chance to be put out there".
He said "fake news" was the "adversary of the general population".
Reports guaranteeing his battle helpers had contact with Russian insight authorities have especially angered the president.
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