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artappraiser — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:52:36 +0000

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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:

For the second time in four days, the White House barred television cameras from a media briefing Thursday and prohibited live audio broadcasts. Press secretary Sean Spicer also skipped the session, deploying his deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to answer questions instead.

Off-camera briefings are becoming a regular occurrence in the Trump White House, especially on big news days. (Senate Republicans released their health-care plan Thursday, and the president finally said that he did not record conversations with former FBI director James B. Comey.)

[On a big news day, Trump’s White House turns off the cameras again]

In keeping with a promise we made Monday, The Fix has annotated a transcript of Thursday's briefing, since it could not be seen on TV. We'll continue the practice when White House spokesmen go off camera. To view an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text.

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.

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