I’m not at all complaining about access. The tension had been building for awhile. https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/sarah-huckabee-sanders-brian-karem.php Like I said at the time, any of us in that press room are expendable.I saw a couple of the staffers afterwards. I have received some negative feedback online.
He is also a contributor to “The foundation of a free republic is a free press. Sometimes others might say “good question,” or “nicely done,” but there is no real strategizing I’ve seen in the years I’ve been coming and going out of that room. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.They say that they support the First Amendment, but they have called us enemies of the people, and they repeatedly call us fake media. I’ll take that one. I prefer to be friendly, but if that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes.
He has brought in cabinet members, he’s given us multiple briefings with them, he’s given us background briefings. There were some technicians who have been there for a while who said this is what it was like when Sam Donaldson, Helen Thomas, and others were around. When she isn’t assisting airway surgeries and distributing personal protective equipment to coworkers, she works as a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer, focusing on healthcare, trauma, and... It’s the issue that’s important, not who brought it up. He has served for 13 years as the executive editor of newspapers, two papers that cover the Washington, DC suburbs.
I’m just fed up with bologna, and I felt like it was time to say something. You take the good with the bad and you move on. We deserve to see that respect, and we have yet to see it.We do eat our own. It has been complimentary for the most part. I had my limit, man. Reporter Brian Karem decided to speak up, accusing her of “inflaming” public sentiment against news outlets.Karem tells CJR he has been attending the press briefings since 1986. It’s not right. As I’ve said before, in quoting [Reagan-era Press Secretary] Larry Speakes: we won’t tell you how to stage the news, so don’t tell us how to report it,” Karem wrote.We talked to Karem about his experiences inside the White House press corps, reactions to his interjection, and the lesson he hopes journalists learn from the confrontation. A couple of them accused me of grandstanding, and another accused me of being me. Everyone in that room has shown a great deal of respect to the president. During a briefing Tuesday, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacked the media for using anonymous sources, citing on ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. And I felt like someone should speak to those issues in the press briefing and let them know that we deserve the respect that we show them. If it wasn’t me, it was going to be someone else. You can’t allow them to bully you. You have to stand up for yourself.
That’s absolutely true, but I’m not the guy who really cares. Mostly we are ink-stained wretches who work in the dark.
Don’t be bullied.
If there is any strategizing, it is on the other side.Rosem Morton, a nurse for eight years, works full-time at a Baltimore hospital. It is what it is, and let the chips fall where they may. There were a few reporters who told me I did a good job. We had a briefing yesterday, it was the first one in a week, and the White House put it on camera to embarrass CNN specifically, and reporters in general. I’m not the enemy of the people. Maybe other people have a better limit than me, but I just had it. When I walked into a briefing late one day, one of the White House staffers was smiling and said “you’re like the honey badger, you just don’t care.” I had just seen the , and it made me laugh. I’m not fake news. They are good sources of material for comedy, to be honest.That’s their opinion.
They call me the “honey badger” in the press room. Mostly we are ink-stained wretches who work in the dark.
He brought in the . I don’t think we’ve had a lack of access. I am tired of the lack of respect that this White House has for the press. I keep those, and usually I print them out and frame them and laugh. It’s not fair. I told my kids there are two ways to handle a bully: You can either make them your friend or you can pop them in the nose. If there is any strategizing, it is on the other side. I have been called worse by people who love me. I don’t know. Sean Spicer has done some great things about increasing access.