Why do we tax-payers have to provide a place in the White House for the media to do their job? We heat them in the winter, cool them in the summer and probably provide coffee, donuts and lunch when they should be standing out by the gate hoping for a morsel of news to create a column.
When did it first begin that the White House had to have daily pressers?
In Washington, both during and in the fifteen years following WWII, there was indeed a reputable and very intellectual press corps. It all began to fall apart in the nineteen sixties, and its destruction was hastened by Watergate. Today, study the people attending the WH briefing. They are for the most part punks, opinionated punks, but punks nonetheless and of no redeeming social value.