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Title: Spicer Takes Question On Skype
Post by: Mase on February 01, 2017, 05:11:12 PM

http://magafeed.com/sean-spicer-fields-first-ever-skype-questions-at-white-house-briefing/ (http://magafeed.com/sean-spicer-fields-first-ever-skype-questions-at-white-house-briefing/)

Title: Re: Spicer Takes Question On Skype
Post by: DJTorrente on February 07, 2017, 10:50:41 AM

He's knocking the Royal Courtesan Scribes of the vaunted "White House Press Corps" down a peg.  Why should the "elite" few who can fit in the room (which the Trump admin tried to make less exclusive and further from the power center by moving the press briefing room out of the West Wing into larger space in the Old Executive Office Building across the street) have the exclusive privilege of asking questions?  This is the 21st Century, after all.

The "press corps" is this self-governing -- and in this regard, cooperative, not competitive -- body that controls things like who gets access to the briefings ("lesser" regarded news organizations have to share a seat), who gets a desk v. a booth or an office, and even who sits where relative to the podium (http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/the-white-house-press-room-seating-chart-204543).

It sounds like the prom committee.  If they didn't wield such influence, it'd be laughably juvenile.