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jebbie @ gaggleThe WH press room has ceased to have any useful function as a daily source of information useful to reporting. The media would better spend their time taking their laptops to a starbucks and browse for something actually useful. If they needed a WH statement, just go to the WH website and download.
-- casual_observer
Which is precisely why journalists need to take a step back and realize why the WH Press Room has devolved into a meaningless excercise in the advance of futility.
Taking WH press releases and advancing them as "news" isn't journalism, it's stenography. An aggressive press corps in the Helen Thomas mold would be a boon to both the profession of journalism and the country as a whole. Our political leadership NEEDS to be asked unscripted questions and a good place to start is the WH Press Room.
