[DBrow]

“blocked from attending a Friday White House press briefing.” This is the brick in the wall of Fake News. They were not blocked from a “press briefing” which is held in the big room. This was a pre-briefing “gaggle” in Spicer’s office. They’ll all be at the real briefing.

[Paladin2]

There was some discussion that, as POTUS (Trump in this case) was out on the Stump, it has been common practice for there to be no big-room briefing that day.

One would think that the LSM scrum would be used to such scheduling.