Reid Cherlin, a former spokesman for President Barack Obama, wrote in no uncertain terms Monday that the daily White House press briefings should be done away with once and for all.
“The daily briefing has become a worthless chore for reporters, an embarrassing nuisance to administration staff, and a source of added friction between the two camps,” Cherlin wrote in The New Republic. “It’s time to do the humane, obvious thing and get rid of it altogether.”
Cherlin acknowledged current White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s “refusal to give straight answers,” but said that “tends to obscure the fact that the questions are pretty pointless, too.”
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