“The press needs to understand that the old rules don't apply anymore,” New York University professor Tad Devine told Newsweek.
President Donald Trump’s White House has set a new record for the longest span of time without a formal press briefing. The 43 days since White House press secretary Sarah Sanders stood before the podium in the Press Briefing Room is the most any administration has gone without the on-camera briefing since the tradition began during Bill Clinton’s presidency.
“I can say, honestly, it’s a huge avenue for accountability for the America people,” Jesse Lee, a senior communications adviser at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank, told Newsweek about the briefings. Lee worked in the Obama press office for all eight years, serving as a senior member of the White House’s digital team before becoming the director of rapid response.
So far, press secretary Sanders has only held two formal press briefings in 2019. On both occasions, the briefing lasted for just 30 minutes or less. Occasionally, Sanders will talk with reporters in the White House driveway but those interactions are erratic at best. The press secretary has not offered an apology or a public correction, even though many have called for her resignation. When asked if Sanders has any credibility left, Lee said that she started off in a big hole coming off of her predecessor Sean Spicer and has “just dug herself deeper from day one.”
“We have a president who really wants to be his own press secretary, communications director, chief of staff and secretary of defense. He wants complete control over it,” New York University professor Tad Devine told Newsweek. Devine, who has been a media consultant for multiple presidential campaigns in the U.S. and to several candidates for prime minister overseas, served as a chief strategist for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign.
But Devine claims that the day the press begins to boycott the administration will be the day that “Trump has really won.”
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