Gingrich urges: Close down the press room

[struggle4progress]

BY JESSE BYRNES - 05/13/17 09:36 AM EDT

... Gingrich is urging .. Trump .. to cancel daily White House press briefings ...

Trump has previously accused news media of being "the enemy of the American people" ...

The White House Correspondents' Association .. pushed back .. noting that "White House briefings and press conferences provide substantive and symbolic opportunities for journalists to pose questions to officials at the highest levels of the U.S. government."

"Doing away with briefings would reduce accountability, transparency, and the opportunity for Americans to see that, in the U.S. system, no political figure is above being questioned," WHCA President Jeff Mason .. said ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/333244-gingrich-urges-trump-close-down-the-press-room

[ck4829]

1. I dunno. While it would reduce accountability, it would give an illegitimate government one less

Mode of transmission.

[manicraven]

2. It won't help because tRump won't give up tweeting and opens his mouth and speaks, too.