In normal times, White House press briefings make for boring television. Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney, and Josh Earnest, the three generic-looking white guys who served as successive press secretaries under President Barack Obama, could walk unmolested through the streets of most American cities. Only on rare occasions was a clip from one of their briefingsfor example, a testy exchange between Carney and Jonathan Karl, of ABC News, debating the logistics of Obamacare enrollmentremarkable enough to make headlines.President Trump seems to have no tolerance for boring television. His press secretary, Sean Spicer, now a recurring character on Saturday Night Live, is often tongue-tied, enraged, or both. Spicers briefings, broadcast live on c-span, are among the most highly rated programs on daytime TV, beating out General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful. On major networks, many hours are devoted to nightly exegeses of Spicers serial self-contradictions, and to Sunday-morning sermons about how he is imperilling the First Amendment.
Källa: Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps? – The New Yorker
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