SEE IT: Two prominent American media personalities speak out against attack on Simon Ateba at the White House

Here is our top story today: People are speaking out against an attack on?Simon Ateba?at the?White House,?and two prominent media personalities have now joined many others.

What they said is totally true, except the part that I had never been called on. I had been called on a few times, skipped over most times, ignored most times. But many other times when I was seen asking a question, I was not called on, I just asked the question and it appeared as though I was called on. I was not.

Because of the attack on me, I am granting a few television interviews starting today to tell my side of the story and what I have gone through at the White House.

This could have been avoided if reporters in back rows were called on and treated as kindly and fairly as others. They are not second class citizens. They are good people like everyone else, but the system is rigged against them. I just happen to be one of them.

Simon Ateba, Publisher and White House Correspondent for Today News Africa in Washington.