Posted on 02/14/2018 6:22:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office is closing the press room inside the presidential palace amid broader efforts by the French leader to control his public image.
Advisers for Macron announced Wednesday that journalists will be moved to a new site out of the presidential Élysée Palace with less access to presidential activity. […]
Macron’s office has increasingly used Facebook and YouTube to spread his message instead of publicly answering media questions. …
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May I suggest the Bastille, Manny? Plenty of "rooms" there!
Trump should have done this a long time ago. The White House is His House. The place for press briefings is the space where FDR had a pool for his polio treatments. Make it a pool again.
Better yet, fill the pool while the press is in it.
The press briefing gets hijacked on a daily basis about the WH scandal du jour according to the MSM and despite Sarah saying, “That’s all I have on that issue,” they persist. They intentionally ignore or subvert issues that are important to regular Americans.
The times I watch, it truly does seem like an exercise in futility.
Macron is no Donald Trump. He is a Corporatist who wants to shove an un-Trump agenda on France.
I don’t care a bit about this. He’s doing it for some good results with public opinion like a business as usual fake phony politician.
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