Here’s the new White House briefing room seating chart for news agencies

[Ichingcarpenter]

No humour or joke just what it is





from PBS correspondent Lucy P Marcus

https://twitter.com/lucymarcus/status/580813840167923712/photo/1

[dorkzilla]

1. Why does Fox get a front row when they’re not even “news”?

Cable news gets ahead of NPR and the NY Times? NY Post gets closer than the BBC?

Maybe the reason BBC is in the back row is because the person in charge of the seating chart REALLY REALLY likes Top Gear??

[99th_Monkey]

2. Especially when MSNBC is in the FOURTH row! ~nt~

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Notice that they get two seats as well. Fox News and Fox News Radio.

I'd think they could take away one of those spots and allot another foreign press spot. Heck, they could use another half dozen foreign press spots.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Thanks, Obama!

Just kidding.

Seating is assigned by the White House Correspondents Association, not the White House itself.

[dorkzilla]

6. Thanks pinboy

That makes sense now. But it still begs the question as to why Fox gets represented when they are not news but “entertainment”? Even if its done through the Correspondents Association, you would assume someone in the Association would raise an objection, no?

I still think someone is pissed off that the BBC fired Jeremy Clarkson.

[Takket]

5. The Onion should lobby for a seat

If Fox News, which in open court has stated they are an entertainment network, can get a seat, why shouldn't The Onion?

[rgbecker]

7. No LA Times?