re: #263 Belafon

We can go to no briefings, which means that we’ll have no direct access anyway. Then again, if the Washington Post has 30 contacts inside, maybe they’re less necessary.
The press can’t force the executive to have press briefings. I doubt, actually, that Congress can force them to.

It’s probably all of the backroom access that news groups have that is causing these briefings to be minimized. That, plus the fact that can’t find a competent sycophant. A lot of times, all we were getting out of Spicer was material for SNL.