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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIncreasingly short White House Press Briefings...yet another red flag
CNN's Jim Acosta just went out of his way to note how abbreviated the press briefings under Trump are compared to previous administrations....as if that surprises any of us.
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Increasingly short White House Press Briefings...yet another red flag (Original Post)
IamFortunesFool
Feb 2017
OP
Not really.Short compared to press briefings during Obama administration, but not compared to others
onenote
Feb 2017
#6
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. one wonders, why they even bother
to do them at all.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)2. KNR
VOX
(22,976 posts)3. Just another step toward eclipsing transparency...
Why not just pull the plug on a dying patient (America)?
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)4. will this
motivate the Press Corp that they are witnessing something very wrong and report it.
underpants
(182,802 posts)5. Spicer's day is filled chewing gum.
onenote
(42,702 posts)6. Not really.Short compared to press briefings during Obama administration, but not compared to others
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/06/politics/trump-white-house-briefings/Sunlei
(22,651 posts)7. The Press has to DEMAND more time for questions on daily press briefings as a headline on News.
trumps already slacks the official work along with his gang of incompetent closest 'Admin'.
He can't even focus enough on his fellow Republicans to make THEM work to finish the damn transition.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)8. Everything is done in secret. Don't ask too many questions.