toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
I can see where at $170 a pop, the WH must be paying a fortune for the 400 or so full-time staff at the WH. Let's say they work 5 days a week, that's $34,000 p/wk. That doesn't include visitors, contractors or Secret Service. From that perspective, it seems a little more fair asking the press corps to pay their own way. How about they share pics and video rather than all bringing their own camera teams?
Or President Biden rethinking the daily testing for everyone. Is that a bit excessive? Could a more reasonable plan be made?
Why not just have the reporters stay at their desks in the office, or at their homes, and just send in whatever queries they have electronically? Alternatively, if the WH wants to give information to all the reporters, they could just send out a e-letter to the official reporters acting as their buffer?
BTW, that's sort of similar to what Trump did. If there was something important, he would just tweet it, and reporters just had to look at their twitter feed.
I have a better idea. The entire Press Corp ought to just not even show up for Biden Pressers at all. Let Jan meet with an empty room. No one at the Pressers, no one at meetings, interviews, no questions, nothing. Not even virtual over the web. STATIC.