The Whitehouse press gallery has all been downhill since veteran reporter Helen Thomas was ejected for the crime of answering a question (asked outside the press gallery) honestly in an obvious set up which took some weeks to compile, none of her 'colleagues' made any attempt to aid her, she who had spent 67 years as a reporter much of that at the Whitehouse. They are a joke and exist only to gather 'un-named spokesperson close to the president' style deliberate leaks used by the whitehouse to cover their arses/promote some deceit/boost some program which sells out ordinary humans - sometimes in amerika, sometimes elsewhere on the planet.
As others have noted the last time anyone in the gallery stood up to a president was when Drumpf was in power and that bloke, one of nature's slimiest toadies got a raise & a book deal out of his ill mannered spiel, much worse than anything either Simon Ateba or Xu Dezhi have ever done.
The irony is that there were plenty of things to criticize Trump over when he was in power, but instead the press corps decided to chase a conspiracy theory so loopy, it would have gotten you laughed out of The John Birch Society, ca. 1961.
The Whitehouse press gallery has all been downhill since veteran reporter Helen Thomas was ejected for the crime of answering a question (asked outside the press gallery) honestly in an obvious set up which took some weeks to compile, none of her 'colleagues' made any attempt to aid her, she who had spent 67 years as a reporter much of that at the Whitehouse. They are a joke and exist only to gather 'un-named spokesperson close to the president' style deliberate leaks used by the whitehouse to cover their arses/promote some deceit/boost some program which sells out ordinary humans - sometimes in amerika, sometimes elsewhere on the planet.
As others have noted the last time anyone in the gallery stood up to a president was when Drumpf was in power and that bloke, one of nature's slimiest toadies got a raise & a book deal out of his ill mannered spiel, much worse than anything either Simon Ateba or Xu Dezhi have ever done.
The irony is that there were plenty of things to criticize Trump over when he was in power, but instead the press corps decided to chase a conspiracy theory so loopy, it would have gotten you laughed out of The John Birch Society, ca. 1961.
And I think this “assault” on a mostly useless press (except for Helen) started after Watergate.