At first news agencies were reduced to the absurd – painting short word pictures or using sketch artists to depict action.
In July ABC (USA) began showing "The Briefing Room" with its in-house political team analysing the now 'invisible' press briefings.
Then the dam wall was breached......
The Washington Post, 19 July 2017:
It was only a matter of time.
At every White House news briefing since June 29 — and many before, too — President Trump's spokesmen have ordered a room full of smartphone-toting journalists not to film the session or even broadcast live audio. On Wednesday, one reporter defied the White House by streaming live sound of the briefing online.
Ksenija Pavlovic, a former political science teaching fellow at Yale who founded a news site called Pavlovic Today, used the Periscope app to stream audio of Wednesday's briefing. She tweeted a link to the feed:
PBS News Hour followed suit as did ABC News (USA) with delayed audio posted on YouTube.
It is noted that two days later the White House announced an on-camera press briefing with Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
Well done Ksenija!
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