No Longer Daily, White House Press Briefings Fade As Trump Does The Talking
The briefings, which were must-see TV early on in the Trump administration, are now shorter and less frequent. But reporters are getting more chances to ask the president questions directly.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders last walked up to the lectern in the White House press briefing room on Oct. 3 after a 23-day drought. Before that, there had been an 18-day stretch with no briefing.
Early in the Trump administration, the regular White House press briefings were must-see TV, getting big ratings for the sparring between press secretary and press. In recent months, though, the briefings have shrunk away to the point where calling them "daily" would be a severe misnomer.
"It's an important forum for the public, and we shouldn't let it go," says Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project and a political
