white house press corps
HERE’S A FUN PRESS CORPS GAME CALLED “STEAL POLITICO’S SEAT!” We rather like the anecdotes in this FiveThirtyEight post about how oppressed bloggers are always trying to steal Politico‘s seat at White House press briefings, only to be caught minutes later by confused Politico reporters. This could be a fun daily game! So we ask [...]
Aww, Chuck Todd accepted the most frustrating job in media — White House correspondent — only to discover that it is the most frustrating job in media: “Obviously, I’m one of the newbies here in the White House press corps so maybe I’m unfamiliar with the ways of how this place works. I have to [...]
Here’s a comical highlight reel of new White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ first briefing, compiled by Fishbowl DC. The White House press corps, perhaps the most frustrated group of reporters, anywhere, only get a “virgin” every few years, so they were hoping to extract as much off-the-cuff, out-of-context quote action as possible before Gibbs [...]
