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Article: The wild west thing.(recollection of a White House press briefing)(includes related article on television and journalism)
- Article from:
- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Every morning they read The Washington Post that hits their front door and listen to National Public Radio while they shower. Then, their appetites whetted by the day's news, they creep out of the underbrush of Washington neighborhoods and come to the White House briefing room.
They are the lions of the press. They enter through the Secret Service gate on Pennsylvania Avenue, submit their cameras for search, show their passes for the 500th time, snarl at the uniformed police manning the identification computers, and finally trudge up the long and winding driveway to work.
They are entering a cage as real as any zoo ever constructed. Their movements within the ...