Posted on 01/15/2017 12:39:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump’s team is considering moving the press briefing room out of the White House's West Wing, according to Trump's incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
When asked about an Esquire magazine report that the incoming administration plans to move the press room out of the West Wing to the Old Executive Office Building next door, Priebus told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week", "The one thing that we discussed was whether or not we want to do conferences in the [Executive Office Building]."
"Which, by the way, is the White House," Priebus added. "So no one is moving out of the White House. That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more press coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about."
The news of a possible change in venue for White House press corps briefings comes after a very contentious first press conference by the president-elect last week.
“I know some of the folks in the press are uptight about this and I understand,” Priebus said on “This Week.” “The only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press room. For the people listening to this that don't know this, the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny -- 49 people fit in that press room.”
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Just look at the names on those lists!
And yet, despite all that help Hillary still couldn’t win.
0bama invited Huffington Post, Buttfeed, and maybe even Democratic Underground to take part in the White House briefings. I’d like to see Trump invite Breitbart, World Net Daily, Free Republic, Conservative Treehouse, and others to his briefings.
Strange how the article does not mention that JFK moved press conferences out of the White House to the state department auditorium, which seats 200.
See this link for images of those press conferences:
Put them all in a fleabag hotel in down town DC
Do eeeeeeet!
It’s awesome, make sure that access is doled out in exchange for fair treatment. Treat the press as an opposition political organization, which they are. I think they should move them off site, as you don’t allow enemies inside the gates. However, you could allow select members to enter the White House grounds from time to time and be given interviews and access, and eventually, when you had a group of 10 or 20 decent journalists, grant them some space inside. The ones on the outside looking in become irrelevant.
Put them all in a fleabag hotel in down town DC.
Good idea. Please not in the WH. Got to fight back. They need to be taught to do their jobs again.
I’ve been in favor of that for a long time.
Let’s do it!
No need to have a venue. Just do it over Skype. Just say they want to save taxpayers money. Then you charge each network for a subscription to the feed, but of course there are exemptions.
Then you charge each network for a subscription to the feed, but of course there are exemptions.
And charge them for what they are able to pay. Networks should be charged the highest rate, while smaller organizations like Breitbart or 21stCenturyWire (for example) won’t pay much at all.
Call it ‘spreading the wealth.’
Wonderful!!!!
Barnum and Bailey are folding their circus tents for the last time this May. I suggest the White House buy one to hold press conferences in.
Absolutely! Actually I have to say its the only area I feel Trump is not strong enough…directly articulating what the press has become. Knowing him, he has a plan.
Hmmm...
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Oh I love this idea- I hope they follow thru and do it!
After 18 months of getting the presidential election completely wrong, not a single mainstream media outlet has looked honestly in the mirror, admitted their inherent flaws and committed to any change in approach, management or journalistic personnel. Exactly the opposite, they’ve quadrupled down on the same old – same old.
Consider a media request for access as you would any employment application:
♦ Drug test anyone who requests credentials for the White House press. Conduct background checks, criminal checks and credit checks via a third party security vendor. Dismiss any applicant who does not pass a strict background check.
♦ Keep using twitter and facebook daily, or as determined to send direct messaging to a news-consuming public. Keep using social media, and/or any alternate communications platforms to communicate with the American People.
♦ Establish a strict dress code for credentialed media. No casual days, ever. 100% business professional, 100% of the time. No business casual, ever.
♦ Discontinue the live-feed broadcast of the Daily White House briefing. Stop allowing a press briefing to be the daily news lede ‘in-and-unto-itself’. Only conduct the WH press briefing when POTUS is actually in the White House. Set an earlier time for the press briefing – ex. 7:30am daily, for a set amount of time, ex. 1hr. Deliver the day’s bullet-pointed news as it pertains to the White House and current events, answer questions and be done.
♦ Draw a distinction between “interviews” and “press conferences”. Pressers should be short question and answer sessions; eliminate long-winded background set-ups for questions in press conferences. Background expository prior to a question is an interview technique during an interview, not a press conference.
♦ Eliminate “exclusive interviews”, which are notorious for editing and disinformation. When granting interviews bring in two media entities to conduct an interview; one each from either side of the political continuum, and they can interview together – taking turns on the questions.
♦ Ten hour work days. 7am to 5pm. Use TWO Continuous, Alternating, Press Secretaries, not just one. Focused intensity and urgency.
♦ Have a quarterly lottery for press briefing media attendees who pass the background check and application process. Equal opportunity participation. Seating = first come first seated, general seating, every day. Doors close promptly 6:55am, late = shut out.
♦ Drop the traveling Presidential press pool completely. Give the press a daily schedule, and then make media use their own resources to cover the events therein as they deem needed including air travel. Equal access without preferential treatment. This also includes foreign travel. The “credentialed press pool” only applies to White House pressers.
♦ When POTUS, V-POTUS, or cabinet officials travel, give first preference to local media, not national. Allow local reporters to ask questions pertaining to their community perspective on the event or engagement.
♦ Drop the insufferable White House Correspondent’s dinner fiasco. It’s a ridiculous and vulgar display; a bubble event, with no inherent value for the country. It is also a grotesque exhibition of disconnected indulgence. There’s too much work to be done, just go about doing it.
♦ Engage the legacy media as a communications unit. Deliver the Trump message as a communications unit. Have a self-broadcasted roundtable meeting of communications officials with a rotating group of media invited to attend. Maybe every other Sunday etc.
♦ Have POTUS give monthly EVENING press conferences; with part of the presser containing an ongoing and established outline to share progress on agenda. Perhaps half for ongoing efforts, half for current events.
♦ Re-establish a media work ethic by setting high standards, high expectations and a zero tolerance for laziness. Make the media rise to the level of professionalism required by never letting circumstances dictate your standards.
♦ Set an example with the recent display of CNN’s Jim Acosta. He can either write a public apology outlining his rude recent behavior, or he can lose his White House credentials. Make shame a great motivator again.
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