The legacy media is apoplectic. Here’s CNN
Trump White House plans to shake up briefing room seating, flexing power over press corps
In the Trump administration’s latest assertion of power over the press corps, the White House intends to take over the seating assignments in the press briefing room, according to a senior official.
The plan may cause a tug-of-war with the White House Correspondents’ Association, the independent group that currently assigns seats and manages the relationship between the White House and the press corps.
“Assertion of power”. ZOMG, Trump is a dictator! You can feel the freakout from CNN. And the Washington Post
Journalists call out reported White House plan to reshuffle media seats
The White House Correspondents’ Association on Monday strongly objected to a reported plan for the White House to take over the process of determining where reporters sit in the briefing room.
The organization has long determined the seating chart, awarding prime positions for the major television networks, news wires and newspapers.
Remember that last paragraph.
The Trump White House’s Latest Blow to the Press Is About Way More Than Seating Charts
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That may sound like a small thing, and in some ways it is. Deciding who sits where in the briefing room has long been within the purview of the White House Correspondents’ Association, a journalist-led organization. In theory, snagging one of the front-row seats that currently go to some of the biggest broadcasters and newspapers gives reporters a better chance of getting a question in during a press briefing. But in a White House already so openly hostile to the mainstream media—a White House that has used the briefing room to accuse journalists of being propagandists—those seats have diminishing returns.
The issue is not so much how the seating chart will impact this White House’s press briefings, which mostly make news these days for the extent of their obfuscations. But, in assuming power over a system that has traditionally been the domain of the free press, President Donald Trump is sending a message about who’s really in charge of how his presidency gets covered and who gets to cover it.
See, it’s all about Freedom Of The Press being obliterated for the big Credentialed News outlets! This continues through lots and lots of the old school leftist outlets. Nice to see Vanity Fair. Perfect name for the outlet
(Semafor) The WHCA’s current system reflects the 20th century media power structure: wire services and broadcast and cable television networks occupy the front row, major newspapers and radio get the second and third rows, and a more fluid collection of news organizations sits further back. The White House proposal would upend the arrangement in a move White House officials reportedly believe will be a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today.”
Oh, that has to make the activist media outlets upset. Not giving the old TV stations and newspapers the first few rows? How dare the Trump administration! Arglebargle! But, yeah, things have changed. How many truly consume the news the way they used to? Maybe the Boomers and older tune into the cBS Evening News and PBS on the radio, but, not so much Gen X and down. Sure, I go to cBS.com, the NY Times, and others, but, I scroll and move from source to source. I use Yahoo News to aggregate, along with other aggregators. We hit blogs and new media. We’re reading left, right, international. We scroll Twitter and other social media (Twitter is my only one).
So, yeah, they’re upset, enough to act like toddlers
On Sunday, key members of the WHCA, including the organization’s leadership and some White House bureau chiefs, met to discuss a range of potential responses should Trump communications officials decide to dictate where reporters in the room sit.
According to two people familiar with the discussions, among the proposals raised by members was a potential Civil Rights era-style “sit-in” protest, in which members would return to their old seats and refuse to leave them.
Good grief. Can they not hear throughout the room? Are they that entitled? Hell of a difference between sitting at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro to fight for equality and a petulant sit in to retain your power, wanting to leave the Other Outlets sitting at the back of the bus.
Asked about a potential protest by members of the WHCA, including a potential sit-in, White House communications director Steven Cheung responded: “Hahahahahahahaha…..…hahahahahahahahaha.”
Yup.
Wait! What? The “Credentialed Media” (generally a bunch of leftists with an audience of other leftists) have issues when their self-awarded power and influence is exposed as such?
“Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!”
– Gomer Pyle
“Credentialed media should not accept this. They should all boycott the White House briefings until Trump buckles under the pressure. It’s not like they really NEED the White House Press briefings since they just make stuff up anyway and rely on “unnamed sources”.
Personally, I will miss that young lady who wears nothing under her suit jacket and sits in the front row. No doubt, she was hired for her “credentials”.
Worst case, the “credentialed” media can read about what happened on the internet, like the rest of America.
Fat Donnie, Mob Boss and his consigliare, fElon, believe they own our White House!!! LOL. It belongs to real Americans, not a barely-elected interloper and his patron!!
WE The People, allow them to squat there!
But Fat Donnie, Mob Boss, believes himself to have been made The King of America!!
But who’s gonna stop him? Since he is a delusional sociopath, he just ignores tradition, mores and norms! Fat Donnie, Mob Boss, hates tough questions or any reaction other than abject worship.
We don’t need no stinkin’ free press!! They’re all far-left, commie liars!! Maybe Teach can get a front-row seat, next to the odious Jim Hoft!
This is just Fat Donnie, Mob Boss, acting manly for “his” own media brownshirts. LOL. It’s theatrics! LOL.
Another insane rent another insane wreck. You really can’t get off your old program can you? Now we’re gonna watch you get the crap kicked out of you in the next election tomorrow are you gonna continue to do it until you change your communist ways. Thank you very much!
We were near Tampa last week!! Are you there yet or still at mom and dad’s?
Cleaned up on trout and redfish in the Gulf of Mexico!!
I’m not on a ballot so cannot get the crap kicked out of me.
Trump is a mofo SOB using the US for his own purpose – mainly to stay out of prison. Good for him! But yes, I will continue to oppose him vociferously until he has me deported!!
i did not mean get the crap kicked out of you literally. You guys sometimes find it difficult to determine wice cracking from honesty.
I’ve been doing a lot of running around as of late I haven’t kept you guys informed a quick update. I moved to my father’s guest house in Palm Beach. It only makes sense senses a larger house than mine was anyhow and I’ve already gotten paid from the insurance companies on my house and my contents. I’m actually looking around Saint Augustine. It’s a beautiful city. I’m also considering Charleston.
Since I can no longer work in first responder jobs not even drive an ambulance my father wants me to run one of his boutique hotels on the coast. He’s add an excellent year, I guess it helps when you’re friends with the president and at Mar a Lago every other week. If I could find the right piece of property I will build a house for myself in one of those locations. My father can help me in locating the property and locating the correct builders to do the work so I’m good there. He has property on Hilton Head but he keeps pushing me to go to Wexford plantation where he says he can get me a nice piece of property of about 3 million.
He’s building/buying some new properties in the Keys some Sandals and things like that touristy stuff. I’m really not interested in becoming an innkeeper I did that for him before when I was around 20. It was fun then it wouldn’t be fun now.
Dad’s supposed to be picking up his new car this coming weekend when he does I’ll let you know’cause it’ll burn your hide te-he.
But I am serious about one thing you and your radical left fellow travelers destroy the Democrat party and we were telling you you were doing it and you refused to listen oh now it’s happen Derek your home party is it dumpster fire. You gotta take whatever medicine you need to get over this trump derangement syndrome. And replacing it with Musk derangement syndrome isn’t helping. Stop worrying about clever ways to insult Trump and think about clever ways to make Democrat party as good as it used to be in the olden days before the communists took it over, if Americans wanted a Communist Party they’d join it we have one here. You should now.
You ARE correct that the Dem Party is fucked up. Their stupidity allowed the godawful trump to get re-elected, barely. trump is doing all he can to fuck up the gift he’s been given. Do you buy his argument that the suffering the US must endure the next few years will be worth it?
Don’t be a dumbasshole. There are no communists around. And insulting the protofascist trump is easy.
YOU guys suffer from Trump Devotion Syndrome (the real TDS). He doesn’t care about you, but if you don’t worship him he gets pissed. He’s a jealous god. MAGAts are furious at Justice Amy Coney Barrett for not having an adoring look on her face during the State of the Union.
https://x.com/Boatstory1/status/1897136772817281094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1897136772817281094%7Ctwgr%5E1611149e483adb1e9059a3fa78ae74164c279ef2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Famy-coney-barrett-reaction-donald-trump-walking-2040303
Fine, let the entitled Marxist imbeciles of the WHCA pack the briefing room. Hold a press conference with principled, competitive patriots in another room. One more thing: I don’t remember these spoiled brats complaining when the communists held the White House and did not allow conservative reporters in the briefing room.
If I was the Whitehouse, I would remove the chairs and tape off the floor with numbered squares. Each week hold a drawing of numbers for who/what gets to stand in the numbered square.
Maybe they could force the reporters to march around the chairs while “Hail to the chief” plays. When the music stops, that’s the chair they get. :-)
That’s the problem with MAGAts. They believe/feel they should be able to “force” others to dance for them. Fuck that.
The White House belongs to Americans, not Donnie “Liberation Day” Trump.
Buckle up for the Trump Recession…
Guess Rimjob forgot the, um, mandated vaccines.
It wasn’t that long ago.
But losing does seem to cause memory loss with libturds.
MAGA47 Motherfucker!