White House to Take Over Briefing Room Seating | Political News

For years, a lot of the nation’s biased main media have finished battle for the Democrats and the progressive trigger. We’ve watched them censor the Hunter laptop computer story, win Pulitzer prizes for protecting the Russia-Russia scandal (which turned out to be bogus), print misinformation piece after misinformation piece about COVID and the effectiveness of the vaccines, and numerous different examples.  

One of the methods they’ve finished that is via the White House Correspondents’ Association, which has labored to keep the legacy media atop the DC journalism food chain. Donald Trump is wanting to change that, and simply as he is created shockwaves all through the Swamp in his second time period, he’s additionally making a huge transfer to higher mirror the nation’s new media panorama.

You can virtually hear the liberal journalists’ crying already:

The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters within the briefing room in coming weeks, taking up a perform long managed by the reporters themselves via the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Why it issues: It’s the most recent — however probably not the final — effort by the White House to take a heavier hand in shaping who covers President Trump. In public and personal, White House officers make it clear they’re decided to upend decades-old press corps traditions.

🚨🚨🚨NEW in @axios AM:@WhiteHouse to impose new Briefing Room seating chart, which for many years was managed by @whca, in coming weeks

WH official tells me it is a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today”👇 pic.twitter.com/OsxNUnffzv

— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) March 30, 2025

Sean Spicer, press secretary during Trump’s first time period, wrote on X Sunday: “Fantastic way to kick off the week.” Ari Fleischer, who held the identical job underneath former President George W. Bush, chimed in:

The choice re who will get to sit in taxpayer offered seats in a authorities building shouldn’t be made by journalists. It ought to be made by the press sec, as was customary till 2006.

Why is the seating association so important? Because it offers you a large benefit:

The backstory: Prominent seats within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room are coveted as a result of it is simpler to catch the press secretary’s eye to ask robust and probing questions. Those correspondents’ interactions are additionally more probably to be showcased on TV.

• In February, the White House started designating the pool of reporters who accompany Trump in tight areas just like the Oval Office and Air Force One — one other perform the WHCA had managed for generations. WHCA mentioned in response: “In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.”

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In February, the White House had already freaked out members of the legacy media by deciding they might select which reporters get the coveted “press pool” slots, which go to journalists who journey with the president or cowl him in conditions the place there are space limitations. The transfer took away that energy from the WHCA, as we reported.

Trump is rewriting the norms in so some ways, and his shaking up of the DC journalistic cesspool is nice for Americans. We don’t need the company press deciding who will get the best entry to the president—they’ve confirmed themselves again and again again to be hopelessly biased and unreliable.

Expect a lot shrieking forthcoming from shops just like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.  

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