Posted on 04/30/2022 6:47:24 PM PDT by Libloather
Washington reporters have long considered the role of White House correspondent to be the crown jewel of American political journalism. It has launched high-profile television careers, scored countless reporters book deals and been bestowed on media veterans for years of ink-drenched work.
But during the age of Biden, a perch inside the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has become something altogether different. It’s become a bore.
Some of those covering the most powerful office on the planet say that the storylines, while important, and substantive, can lack flair or be hard to get viewer attention. There is industry-wide acknowledgment that viewership is down. Television outlets have been quick to turn their attention to other stories and bolster other units. There is a sense that the main saga of American politics is taking place outside the confines of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and that the journalists covering it - Donald Trump and the future of democracy - may reap the career rewards.
The Obama press room launched a whole cohort of journalists into media stardom. The Trump press room launched another. The Biden press room?
“I can’t think of any [stars],” said a well-known television news executive. “I don’t really watch the briefings.”
The dulling down of the White House beat is not due to a lack of reportorial talent in the room. Nor has it meant that the work being done hasn’t been important: major stories are being broken regularly on everything from the Covid fight, to the war in Ukraine, to inflation, immigration and legislative battles over the social safety net. Rather, what is happening is the fulfillment of a central Biden promise. Running for office against Donald Trump - the most theatrical, attention-seeking, Beltway-panic-inducing president in living memory - he pledged to make Washington news boring again.
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It’s Ginger Goebbels.
Those sycophant reporters make me want to puke.
Peter Doocy appears to be the closest thing to a newly minted White House correspondent star these days.
The White House doles out obvious lies, the press laps them up uncritically, and everyone knows it. Yes it’s a real shocker that no one is all that interested.
Talk about giving Senile Joe a wash and Simonize for his nether port...
You mean there are reporters in the room other than Peter Doocy?
EEwwww, I’ll never be able to unsee that.....
I can’t see how covering Biden could be boring. The guy’s so addlebrained that you never know what kind of idiocy will come out of his pie hole. You’d think reporters would stand around anxiously waiting to hear what kind of muddled verbal diarrhea comes out of him.
Of course it’s boring. All the “reporters” have to do is repeat the White House talking points. It’s not like they will ask Biden tough questions or investigate anything he says or does.
What utter garbage. Jen Psaki is “so good” at her job? She can’t open her mouth without a lie spilling out, and if these “reporters” actually did their job, they’d write about that. It reminds me of comedians who said they never joked about Obummer because there was nothing funny about him. Stomach-turning. Uggg.
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