Yeah, what’s important is that these briefings be about the press https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1247295050943549442

A whole room full of Jim Acostas, that’s what we need.

Incidentally, we had @jonkarl on @LRCkcrw last week and one of his arguments in his new book is the press needs to resist Trump’s efforts to draw the press into a position where it behaves like an opposition party. https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center/front-row-at-the-trump-show

The thing I find wild about liberals on Twitter who think the mainstream press is not adversarial enough to the president is that the press is extremely adversarial to the president. The pretense of objectivity is gone. But he continues to be president, thus the press has failed.

The president receives consistently negative coverage and is unpopular. He was unpopular even when economic fundamentals were strong. Negative information about him and his presidency is getting through to the public and affecting public views of him.

The idea that the press needs to spend more time telling the president how counterproductive it is when he is mean to reporters and dismissive of their questions is parochial. It’s the press treating everything as being about the press, which is a temptation people should resist.