Press briefing crackdown worries Trump allies
The press briefings have gone dark.
The briefings, regularly conducted four or five times a week in both the Obama administration and in the early weeks of the Trump administration, have been held far less frequently of late.
And when the White House does give a briefing now, it’s increasingly conducted off-camera.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has made just seven total appearances before the media in the 18 working days since President Trump came back from his first international trip, an unusually low number for a press secretary.
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The White House’s decision to conduct an increasing number of off-camera briefings could help the administration assert more control over its message, officials say.
Spicer has said the move will deprive reporters of the explosive exchanges they crave.
But that drastic break with tradition has infuriated the press corps and split Trump’s allies, who believe the White House is missing out on an opportunity to directly reach the public without having his message filtered through a media they see as biased against him.
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Why are the media going along with this?
