That's right! Because they are required to turn over their worn and stained knee pads to the next reporter / reporterette recruit when they get assigned to the Whitehouse.
Posted on 02/16/2006 8:42:25 AM PST by george76
Sitting in armchairs waiting for handouts not the best way to get scoops
Members of the elite White House press corps this week have acted more like animals that have been kept in captivity for so long that they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing.
The Cheney hunting accident story embarrassingly revealed this fact, which probably explains the greater-than-normal anger and outrage of White House correspondents over the last few days.
“Why weren’t we told?” has been the refrain, not “How did we miss that story?”
The White House press corps does very little news gathering, if by that we mean beating the bushes to find out things.
Instead, they sit in a comfortable auditorium and wait to be told things.
One White House correspondent rarely scoops the others, evidently because the correspondents would rather have the security of getting news handed to them collectively than face the prospect of missing a big story.
Why any self-respecting reporter would want to cover the White House.
Everything was orchestrated.
Nothing was spontaneous.
There was a gentleman’s agreement to make sure no one missed out on a news break, even to the point that, at the end of the day, a light would go on in the press room to alert reporters that they could leave with the confidence that no news would emanate in their absence.
Under that system there was no reward for initiative and no penalty for sloth.
Even if big news were to break while reporters were gone, it was understood that either a) it would be held until they all came into the press room, or b) all would be phoned and notified at the same time.
(Excerpt) Read more at carolinajournal.com ...
Interesting choice of words considering the unmitigated hatred that the left wing MSM has for the Administration.
What a bunch of self-important slugs. Was any reporter actually covering the Vice-president? Hhhmmmmm.
I have spent a lot of time in the briefing room, and I can tell you that the reporters I met were mostly maggots. BIG maggots. Leslie Stahl, Andrea Mitchell(who ,by the way, possesses and enormous head), Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson, etc. They're all very, very strange people and they also feel very, very entitled.
Note doubt, all of the aforementioned people must be heroes to scumbums like David Gregory.
When President Reagan had his press conferences in the East Room, I used to smile with irony as I watched early arrivals for the conference switch the names on chairs in order to get closer to the president.
The White House Press Corps: Poorly dressed, rude children.
But the press has always been hated in America. That will never change. It's the job of the press to be hated, I reckon. Well, speaking as a soul who used to be one, I can tell you this: They are quite awful and they relish that role.
I have spent a lot of time in the briefing room, and I can tell you that the reporters I met were mostly maggots. BIG maggots. Leslie Stahl, Andrea Mitchell(who ,by the way, possesses and enormous head), Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson, etc. They're all very, very strange people and they also feel very, very entitled.
No doubt, all of the aforementioned people must be heroes to scumbums like David Gregory.
When President Reagan had his press conferences in the East Room, I used to smile with irony as I watched early arrivals for the conference switch the names on chairs in order to get closer to the president.
The White House Press Corps: Poorly dressed, rude children.
But the press has always been hated in America. That will never change. It's the job of the press to be hated, I reckon. Well, speaking as a soul who used to be one, I can tell you this: They are quite awful and they relish that role.
That's right! Because they are required to turn over their worn and stained knee pads to the next reporter / reporterette recruit when they get assigned to the Whitehouse.
It all sounds like one happy little inbred family. No wonder their stories are all unremarkable and interchangable.
I love it when Rush plays a montage of them all using the latest dnc talking point - remember when GWB chose Cheney as his running mate it was to give his campaign - "Gravitas".
How obvious they all are.
What a bunch of self-centered, arrogant nobodies.
Any clues?
Rush had a good one yesterday - the White House should start releasing all it's newsworthy items to small news organizations around the country before these clowns are told.
Lovely line. No pictures of Helen Thomas. Please. I beg you.
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This article pretty much nails it. One of the best analyses I have seen on the sanctimonious coverage of this story. Al Gore speaking in Saudi Arabia against US treatment of Arabs was a far more newsworthy story, but it doesn't move the action line that Bush is evil forward.
Excellent idea.
The little newspapers would do a much better job.
There was no reporter in Texas covering the VP.
All of the slugs were asleep.
It is very nice when Helen Thomas sits in the front row waving her hand and then get ignored.
WH press corps=potted plants/libpodpeople
I would have paid big money if McClellan had stopped, looked at her and answered, "Uh....DUUUHHHH!"
Somewhere Bill Engvall is shouting "Here's your sign!"
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