he could not at the podium invoke that which i imagine, josh, having taken difficult questions, watching that, you wish you could have been, like, how dare you ask that question about my family member. chris, i m a distant eighth cousin of barack obama and i m indignant about the fact you chose to ask me that question. is that true or are you making it up. i m making it up. it would have been an excuse i would have used in press briefings. first of all, the first thing i noticed having been on the receiving end of questions from television reporters, you have to admire the way peter alexander handled the situation. he asked a direct question, and he did the thing you re supposed to do conducting an interview. he sat back and gave her an opportunity to answer. it would have been easy for him to jump an aggressive follow-up when she had the long pause after the first phrase but he didn t. you have to give him credit for that. in terms of the way she answered the question, she was r
jared kushner and nepotism in the white house. josh ernest served under president obama as press secretary. he was not a blood relative so he could not at the podium invoke that which i imagine, josh, having taken difficult questions, watching that, you wish you could have been, like, how dare you ask that question about my family member. chris, i m a distant eighth cousin of barack obama and i m indignant about the fact you chose to ask me that question. is that true or are you making it up. i m making it up. it would have been an excuse i would have used in press briefings. first of all, the first thing i noticed having been on the receiving end of questions from television reporters, you have to admire the way peter alexander handled the situation. he asked a direct question, and he did the thing you re supposed to do conducting an interview. he sat back and gave her an
is because right now there s kind of a there s a general climate of people attacking the press and its credibility. granted, newspaper reporters and television reporters are different than a reporter writing a book on the president. reporting practice that goes into it is not a situation that you want to be too loose because that s a lesson taken and applied to other situations it could be problematic. because right now so many of us are having to defend the way we do our work. which, you know, depends on integrity and triple sourcing and making sure you are very straight with people when you re on the record and off the record and everything nuanced in between because that s how we maintain our credibility. so this is a little thing that is happening in a bubble but unfortunately there s no way to have a bubble in this environment right now. and the more there s a focus on this spat now between michael wolff and the president, first of all the book sales are through the roof, but al
welcome to all of you. i noticed this week, a big increase in the number of times on television reporters were saying words like lie, jeff greenfield, is this a change in tone, a change in fte tenor? as opposed to falsehoods, i these it was the new york times during the campaign that jumped over that line. it doesn t imply, it says this was intentional. or at best incredibly reckless. and i think it shows a steady increase in how most of the press is now trying to stay so to its readers we know what was said was false and it couldn t be anything other than distribute. when i focus on proven
the white house correspondents association is working every day to try to change that and will continue to do that. we ve worked to build a strong relationship with the trump press team and we ll continue to work on that. but it is challenging. and it is frustrating. things boiled over this week with sarah huckabee sanders. instead of sort of using the example of a news organization holding some of its journalists accountable and actually firing them, she used that as an opportunity to attack the entire room and tensions boiled over. and one member of the white house press corps said hey, we come out here every day to do our jobs. we have a job to do. and most of us are simply trying to get information from you for our readers or our viewers. tell me about just how close to boiling tempers are in that room. well, i think it is frustrating to reporters to, a, not be able to feel like they re able to do their jobs. television reporters and radio