Tillerson holds briefing in Saudi Arabia without US press

[spanone]

smells like bullshit to moi

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed the media in Saudi Arabia on Sunday without members of the American press in attendance.

Tillerson held the press conference with the Saudi foreign minister, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, but it appeared that only foreign reporters were present. Journalists from the United States were left scrambling to figure out what happened.

The State Department later apologized, adding that it couldn't notify the press in time.

State Department spokesman R.C. Hammond said there was "not enough time to alert or make arrangements for U.S. media to participate."
"Steps were immediately taken to ensure a transcript could be produced and distributed to reporters. Ideally, members of the U.S. press corps should have had the option to attend the press conference and ask questions," he said.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/media/saudi-arabia-tillerson-press-conference/index.html

[Ilsa]

1. This is what dolt45 suggested.

Don't have briefings (for US press, anyway) and just give them a synopsis afterwards.

[spanone]

2. that way you don't get those irritating questions about russia and trump mal-administration

[Warpy]

3. US press is about to answer the clue phone

about rolling over for these jokers to preserve "access" to their lies first hand: it didn't work.

Time to join the resistance, guys.

[democratisphere]

4. Tillerson is BS.