I have suggested for years that some president simply close the White House press room. Eliminate the workstations. Tell the reporters to go back to their home offices and come by for press conferences. The White House press corps has become counterproductive. It is a pack of sycophants for democrats and a pack of hyenas for Republicans, but it’s pack journalism either way. Send them home. Still hold the daily press briefings, but depending on whatever the lead story of the day might be, fill the room with beat reporters who actually know something, as opposed to the entrenched White House crowd. There might even be topical questions from time to time.
They are all the same. Why do they need more than one?...............
I agree 100% and it's been this way since Nixon days (at least). Republican presidents are treated horribly with little respect and Democrat presidents get their asses kissed and lobbed nothing but softball questions.
As well, having the media camped at the WH is no longer necessary in this age of social media. This hearkens back to a day when the president had limited reach to the American people.
Today, the president can reach tens of millions of people instantly with one Tweet, for example, which then quickly gets retweeted and cascaded throughout all other media portals. The president is constantly taking media questions at public appearances which then get quickly embedded into social media streams which reaches the American people almost instantly.
The WH Press Corps are dinosaurs of a bygone era. Time to shut it down.
Agreed, kick them all out, every last one of them. Tell them if we need you will call you, otherwise we will tweet or release press statements to you since you obviously couldn’t tell the truth to save you out of hell.