The New York Times posted a hilarious meltdown Tuesday night complaining the Trump administration has “tak[en] steps to more closely control” the Brady Briefing Room. Their alleged crime against journalism? Instituting a “new media seat” to lead off the briefing and “[o]n average, a quarter of the people” called on “for questions are standing along the perimeter.”
In other words, those pesky conservative reporters — whom anonymous “longtime White House reporters” whined like bitter Mean Girls to The Times — are “erod[ing]” their power and “independence” and because they “rarely challenge the administration’s talking points,” they’ve “undercut the briefings as a space to relay accurate information to the American public and hold the president to account.”
[Source](https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/04/16/womp-womp-nyt-furious-leavitt-calls-conservative-reporters)
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The New York Times posted a hilarious meltdown Tuesday night complaining the Trump administration has “tak[en] steps to more closely control” the Brady Briefing Room. Their alleged crime against journalism? Instituting a “new media seat” to lead off the briefing and “[o]n average, a quarter of the people” called on “for questions are standing along the perimeter.”
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In other words, those pesky conservative reporters — whom anonymous “longtime White House reporters” whined like bitter Mean Girls to The Times — are “erod[ing]” their power and “independence” and because they “rarely challenge the administration’s talking points,” they’ve “undercut the briefings as a space to relay accurate information to the American public and hold the president to account.”
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