I keep seeing that comment on FR. But I have no idea what difference a new Whitehouse spokesperson would make. Do you really think anybody standing behind that podium would change the poison coming from the press idiots that cover the Whitehouse? Nobody watches the press briefings anyway. You could put anyone from Ted Nugent to Rush Limbaugh up there and people like Helen Thomas and David Gregory would write the same trash.
So, a job profession called "spokesperson" is useless?
Scott has been a total failure.
People used to derive great enjoyment and motivation from Ari's rounds with the press core, espesially with Helen Thomas. The people that count that need encouragement, the activists that get the less active involved to win elections.
You ask what good a Press secretary can do. The difference between a good press secretary and a bad press secretary is that a good one puts the reporters on defense. The defensive tone carries into their reports and into their coverage.
The MSM on Defense rather than Offense is GOOD for the administration. It changes perception, it changes tone of who controls the debate.
Did you watch when Ari was Press Secretary? He was masterful.