* Biden and Putin summit begins in chaos as members of the press scrambled to get inside the Swiss villa
* Russian and Swiss security guards manhandled and shoved reporters, then blocked them from entering
* Some American reporters were left outside, while Biden and Putin sat down for their first photo op
* Inside, photographers blocked cameras and journalists shouted questions to Biden and Putin
* It meant members of the media could barely hear what was said as Putin's translator struggled to answer
President Joe Biden's and Vladimir Putin's summit began in chaos on Wednesday as journalists pushed to get inside to document the historic event with many of them being left outside.
Part of the small pool of reporters that travel with the president at all times was left outside.
The reporters were pushed and shoved by security officials and Russian media, according to the pool report of the event.
'There's an extremely chaotic scene at the door,' the pool reporter traveling with President Biden reported.
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WNU Editor: The Swiss are responsible for security at this summit. That is their security officials kicking out the press.
And as for US press complaints that Russian media was aggressive in getting the best vantage points to film and take pictures of both Putin and Biden.
Well DUD yeah!!!!
American journalists are definitely spoiled. This is Europe where reporting and journalism is very aggressive and physical to the point where it is every journalist for him or herself.
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Daily Mail calls this joke of a summit "historic." What the hell is historic about it, other than now that Orange-Man-Bad is out of the picture, things can return to the status quo? To watch the media pander to Joe "where-am-I-and-who-are-you" Biden one is tempted to think that, just maybe, the media are perhaps somewhat biased. Nah, can't be.
Much ado about little.
US press need more than a bit of manhandling.
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