Posted on 01/27/2025 12:24:17 PM PST by Red Badger
A second Trump administration may revamp the White House briefing room, sidelining legacy media in favor of independent voices and shaking up the mainstream press's long-held dominance.
There have been reports in recent weeks suggesting that there may be major changes coming to the White House press briefing room in a second Trump administration.
The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) generally creates the briefing room seating chart, which gives the front row to what most of us would call the “mainstream media,” such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and network news channels, most of which, if not all, are notoriously biased to the left. However, the new Trump administration may take the responsibility away from the WHCA and seemingly set the seating arrangements itself.
The New York Sun reported that incoming press secretary Karoline Leavitt “foresees a briefing room makeup that features more independent and non-traditional organizations, including internet personalities that don’t have a print or TV presence,” presumably meaning independent podcasters, journalists, and the like.
Hence, the WHCA, which essentially represents the legacy press, may no longer have the access it always did to smear President Trump and his administration, as it did with every Republican administration before it.
Some reporters anonymously complained about the idea when it came up last month. “It would be a total mess,” a White House reporter told The Hill. “I would expect people would probably boycott the briefings, though that would put certain outlets in a tough spot deciding if they want to go along with what the Trump people are trying to pull.”
The lack of self-awareness here is truly astonishing.
Although they may whine and gnash teeth, as the left tends to do any time it loses, the notion of removing what Trump rightly refers to as the “enemy of the people” is a great idea. The reason to have press briefings in the first place is for the American people to learn about current events, straight from the White House. What press briefings have essentially become are complete spectacles, with journalists/Democrat activists becoming famous either by playing “gotcha” or giving sycophantic praise depending on which party is in power. The only people who benefit from the current system are media networks and their hosts, who then interview each other and pat each other on the back for how amazing they are. The public is left in the dark, about as informed as beforehand.
Trump ran in 2015 on “draining the swamp” and did a great job doing so in his first term. The idea of the mainstream media being blacklisted as “fake news” and a true negative for society, rather than a ruling class outlet to just be complained about regarding its blatant bias and hypocrisy, largely stemmed from the MAGA movement. If anyone is going to dismantle the legacy media’s hold on the White House press briefings, it is Trump and his administration.
The American people don’t need another Jim Acosta, who made a name for himself by consistent and obnoxious grandstanding to the point where the White House pulled his press pass, or Yamiche Alcindor, who views her job in journalism as a directive to bend the “moral arc toward justice.” There is a reason that trust in the media is at an all-time low. We deserve to learn what’s going on in their government, and the “enemy of the people” deserves nothing more than to be ignored. Destroying the monopoly of the legacy press is one incredible and easy way to drain the swamp and help make America great again.
I doubt they change it up much, JDs first interview was awarded to CBS.
So Joe Rogan and Gateway Pundit get a seat in the room?
Just do it!
Give the briefing and leave. The Q&A is just a mechanism for those media people to get famous.
They can submit questions online.
“I would expect people would probably boycott the briefings….”
So what’s the problem?
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Have them do a lottery - everyone is equal...
“ I doubt they change it up much, JDs first interview was awarded to CBS.”
And how did that go for CBS?
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy 100 days
No assigned seats. Random draw for each presser, mix it up.
Keep it to 30 minutes or better yet, remove the seats and let them scrum.
“JDs first interview was awarded to CBS..”
And look how that worked out for them.
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Put the msm in the back.
Most likely to get JD some national exposure. Podcasts and streaming are typically limited to people who subscribe to them, not widely broadcast as a general rule. Yes, they were responsible for the GOP campaign’s exposure to young people, but now the target is the Joe & Jill Sixpacks of the country.........
You got a batter way to make the mainstream media figgers embarrass themselves?
How about, NO SEATS!
Standing room only!
Why provide soft cushy chairs for lard asses?.............
It’s time that we demand journalism from journalists. The Leftist activists occupying seats asking dumb questions does not do a service to the public.
So Joe Rogan and Gateway Pundit get a seat in the room?
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I hope and pray that they do, and IMHO the public around the world would be MUCH better served if all the legacy media corporations were stuck on the back bench and permitted only ONE question each and NO FOLLOW-UP questions. We’ve had to endure way more lies than than any of us have ever wanted to hear!
No seats would be my solution.
Make the lard asses stand up and get some exercise.............
There is no reason the White House should not have the prerogative of assigning sets, and awarding press passes as well. There is no reason a turd like jim acosta should even be tolerated in the room.
Standing room only would force them to fight each other to get to the front. Video it. Sell Tickets. Trump Enterprises presents: “Press gone wild”.
as long as Helen Thomas has her seat up front/center, I’m ok
What??!!! She’s dead???
Never mind.
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