The Current White House Press Room Seating Chart and Why It Has to Go

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The Current White House Press Room Seating Chart and Why It Has to Go

For more than a decade, the White House Correspondents Association, controlled by biased, partisan Democrat activists, has selected who gets to ask the questions.
By Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann
January 3, 2025

ince 2022, when the White House threw up its hands and ceded control to what is, in essence, government property—the James Brady White House Press Briefing Room—it’s been the White House Correspondence Association (WHCA) that determines who gets press credentials to the daily press briefing and where they get to sit. Given the pronounced left-leaning bias of the WHCA, this is wrong, and the practice must stop on Day One of the incoming Trump Administration.

This is a call to Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s outspoken incoming press secretary (historically, the youngest press secretary in U.S. history), to end the practice once and for all. She must distribute press credentials more fairly.

Let’s look at the current seating chart for the briefing room.



And many are angry and frustrated that their slanted coverage of Trump and Republicans was not enough to tilt the results of the 2024 Presidential Election. Many believe that their biased coverage was partly responsible for Trump’s landslide victory and Kamala Harris’ epic defeat.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

They need to go to a revolving seating chart that includes guest media correspondents from smaller Flyover Country media markets to ask the questions the Northeast city-slickers won't ask.

There needs to be more diversity of perspective in that Press Pool.  There's more to America than the Swamp.

[mountaineer]

At least HuffPost was near the back, but who knew TIME magazine still had any reporters at all?

[The_Reader_David]

They need to go to a revolving seating chart that includes guest media correspondents from smaller Flyover Country media markets to ask the questions the Northeast city-slickers won't ask.

There needs to be more diversity of perspective in that Press Pool.  There's more to America than the Swamp.

Yes!  Besides that, don't let left-leaning media double-dip.  CBS, ABC and Bloomberg can have one seat each, not two, likewise for any pairs whose common ownership is not evident from their names (I think that means making the NYT and Boston Globe share a seat, among other things.) Which probably means letting Fox only have one, as well for the sake of appearance of fairness.  When NPR is defunded, take away their seat as well, but in the meantime make their reporter share a seat with the PBS News Hour.  Move more of the centrist and right-leaning media forward, and among the left-leaning media, move the LA Times forward (Why?  Because though their editorial positions are as loony left as the city and state they hail from, they are one of the very few media outlets that in their reporting seem to still have objective journalism as an ideal.)

[DefiantMassRINO]

I'd love to see the knife fight that breaks out when the Boston Globe and the New York Times have to fight each other for the same seat.

Put those currently in the front row into the last row, standing room only, or an overflow room.  Freeze 'em out.

Like the nuns used to tell us ... 'In the eyes of the Lord, the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.'


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