Karoline Leavitt: We’re ‘Seriously Considering’ Changing Up the Seating in the W.H. Press Briefing Room

EXCERPT:

LEAVITT: “The media has changed a lot in the decades of press coverage here at the White House, and it’s time that coverage changes with it. We’ve made some critical steps towards that by changing up how the press pool is decided, who gets to go on Air Force One. We’ve opened up that access to new media and independent journalists. And as for switching up seating in the briefing room, it’s something we are seriously considering. And we tried to broker a meeting with the White House Correspondents Association board today to discuss that matter, but unfortunately, their president send out a fundamentally unserious email to the rest of their membership, making it clear that this is a group that doesn’t care about press freedom, transparency, and access for all media voices, but just cares about having their monetized monopoly over the briefing room. And I would remind them that the briefing room is part of the people’s house. It belongs to the American people. It does not belong to elitist journalists here in Washington, D.C.”