MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Madeline Sheehan Perkins @ BusinessInsider.com, June 23
In response to the White House's recent trend of prohibiting cameras at press briefings, CNN on Friday said it sent its in-house Supreme Court sketch artist, Bill Hennessy, to Sean Spicer's latest press briefing.
CNN said it "equated press briefings to a Supreme Court argument -- an on-the-record event at which cameras are banned." The network argued sketches of the briefing had news value in the same way courtroom sketches do.
News organizations and the White House Correspondents' Association have protested the Trump administration's decision to scale back on-camera press briefings to unprecedented levels [....]
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I noted Callum Borchers @ WaPo tried this alternative to fighting back yesterday, a little less fun but more helpful, with all the breaking on the Health Bill being released and all the questions about Trump saying he had no phone tapes:
Analysis @ The Fix @ WaPo,
No cameras, no live audio and no Sean Spicer: The latest White House press briefing, annotated
Borchers intro to the annotated transcript:
And here was Julie Bykowicz for The A.P.:
Trump Tweetstorms Wash Away White House Press Briefings
Trump's White House is swapping traditional forms of White House transparency for Twitter and political rallies.
June 21, 2017, at 4:01 a.m.
Edit to add Jim Acosta's tweets as noted by Vox.com yesterday
A CNN reporter lost it at the Trump White House on Twitter
Jim Acosta is livid about off camera press briefings.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/23/2017 - 7:52pm