Posted on 01/15/2017 8:30:22 AM PST by monkapotamus
TODD: There was a new report out from “Esquire” magazine... that seemed to indicate that it is your intent to remove the White House press corps from the White House. is that true?
PRIEBUS: Well, look, first of all — let me explain. No, because the White House obviously is 18 acres, right, Chuck? No. the technical answer is no, But what we have is you saw the news conference the other day, and I would have to quarrel with you. I don’t think it was a bizarre news conference. I don’t think it’s a fair characterization, but there was 500 to 600 reporters at that news conference. What I’m talking about and what we’re talking about and the only thing that was discussed about this, is whether or not you take 50 people in the very small press room which it looks big on TV, but is very tiny and whether you want to go 50 feet to the EOB and have for the first few weeks or the first months or so the press conferences where you can fit three or four times the amount of people. It is about more access.
TODD: This isn’t about the office space or any of that business?
PRIEBUS: This is about quadrupling the amount of reporters that can cover our press conference.
TODD: But there will still be reporters — there will still be reporters every day going to work in the White House?
PRIEBUS: Well, that hasn’t been determined, Chuck, but as of now the only thing that created this story, I just want to make it very clear was the question of whether or not the press briefings, at least initially are going to be in the EOB.
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They will be checking their media privilege.
Trump will see to it.
The press loves to talk about themselves. No one is as important as they think they are.
A bigger room, blogger journalists, more competition and reshuffling the front row, what's not to like?
“Issue to a select group of maybe 10% of the existing pass holders, and then bring in Breitbart, and other conservative new media representatives.”
...or maybe just a LOTTERY - if 1000 organziations apply, and there’s room for 40, stick their names in a hat, and the first 40 chosen get to be present for next week’s press conferences.
Something that sounds fair, treats everyone equal, and if it means that the odds are one in 25 that any given organization, even CNN, ends up only getting a week or so at the briefings, so be it...while virtually everyone else asking the questions are from radio stations in Moline, Indiana or whatever.
Would be a lot of fun to see the left try to punch out of that box and say that the Trump Administration is being ‘unfair’.
Yep, the MSM doesn’t want to become even more disinter-mediated.
That ship has already sailed, but they’ll keep on whining until they see the sails slip below the horizon.
It's just that anyone without Twitter, via an Internet access, will be out of the loop./s
President Trump should stick the knife to the WHPC and call it “transformative and democratizing”. Make it a bigger venue and give rotating, week long passes to reporters, bloggers, from around the country and a subset to reporters from around the world.
Exactly. And when not all in the same room it will be much harder for them to collaborate on the angle of the day so they flood the airwaves with all using the same words...like gravitas. Remember when they did that with Cheney?
Something with lotsa cameras and better security.
Great idea. Keep it small. Give out credentials on a weekly rotating basis. Let their heads explode over randomness
And fentanyl piped in the ducts when necessary, like at the Moscow Met.
I doubt that the riff raf press will be allowed back at Trump Hotel. The last time they were there, they stood on the brand new beautiful upholstered chairs in heels to scream questions at then Mr Trump. I think PE Trump will give the press some access. But the days of flying on Af1 are likely over as is hanging out at the WH 24/7. The MSM did nothing but show him disrespect for 18 months. Lies, mocking, so many unkind things about Melania were all remembered. The MSM is used to dealing with spineless pubbies who have no fight. Consequences are coming in five days and the presstitutes are going to squeal like pigs.
It no longer applies. Because those people have already been fighting nonstop for years, using their barrels of ink to defame, degrade, and destroy the right for nearly 50 years straight. It's worse now than ever, without even the pretense of fairness. To try to avoid a fight with the press is akin to fighting a war with the rules and weapons of the last one: a swift and humiliating defeat is certain. Trump wants to change the rules of engagement ... FINALLY! I applaud it whole heartedly.
Hell yea I remember “gravitas” - a word that hadn’t been used in print in DECADES popped in to every reporter’s mind at the same time.
It is a VERY WEIRD place to live when the media, which is more of a vocation than a profession, acts as if they have some claim to be allowed to run the country.
I don’t know what the media was like 240 years ago, and I wish to hell that I could channel the founders, but I strongly suspect that they NEVER behaved this way, at least least into the 20th century and it’s difficult to see how those people would give them the protections that allow them to do this crap - if the media was like it is today.
As I’ve said before, when I see/hear reports of media people being killed or going missing in other countries, I wonder to myself whether they are trying the same stunts over there, rather than legitimately reporting facts...
Kick them out.
Allow Daily Caller, Breitbart, Jim from FR, and select folks online to ask questions.
Obama had the ‘press’ (PR for Dems) submit questions prior to the fake press conferences he held. They were pre-approved and rewritten by the White House and the responses loaded into the teleprompter.
That’s the level of collusion that was taking place for the last 8 years.
Now, reporting on lies that a 4channer made up is national ‘news’ to these folks.
Kick them to the curb.
Simpler and fairer to just rotate the attendees. Why should WaPo, NYT, CNN, etc. have "assured attendance"?? But I see no reason for a permanent press presence in the White House at all.
The press of 240 years ago was a noble thing to behold. The reporters hung around an event and made note of EVERY detail without judgment or bias. I’ve read accounts of tax protests during the pre-Revolution era that are profoundly more objective... and FAR more entertaining... than anything the modern media puts out.
Only issue WH press credentials after the applicant passes a background check, drug test, and releases of the last 10 years of tax returns.
Priebus: ‘Hasn’t Been Determined’ if Reporters Will Be Working Inside the White House
It would be hilarious to watch/listen to the hysterical whineing, crying, moaning, groaning, hand-wringing and anguish in the press corps if they were “banished” to lesser digs.
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