- White House Press Corps
The White House press corps (or the White House press pool) is the group of
journalists orcorrespondents usually stationed at theWhite House to cover White House press briefings andpress releases .The press briefings take place in the White House Press Room. There is no equivalent to the British Parliament's
press gallery at the White House, either as the name of a place or a group of journalists, although at theU.S. Capitol journalists do occupy galleries of their own in the chambers of theU.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Journalists who specialize in covering the upper and lower house of the U.S. Congress are known ascongressional correspondent s.The White House correspondents have often come under criticism for not challenging the people they cover more directly and for shirking its
Fourth Estate responsibility. "The press in Washington got us into theIraq War as much as the people that are controlling it," said legendary journalistGay Talese in an interview. "They took information that was second-hand information, and they went along with it. It wasn't only the Judy Millers who got credit for being in the pocket ofAhmed Chalabi and and the rest of those people. All of them. The "New York Times" bureau, not only Miller, but all of them." [ [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Gay_Talese_on_the_state_of_journalism%2C_Iraq_and_his_life Interview with Gay Talese] , David Shankbone, "Wikinews ", October 27, 2007.]The
White House Press Secretary or a deputy generally holds a daily public news briefing.Notable press people
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Helen Thomas
*Martha Raddatz ofABC News
*Jim Axelrod ofCBS News
*David Gregory of "NBC News "
*David Broder " of "The Washington Post "
*Mike Allen of "TIME "
*Richard Wolffe of "Newsweek "
*Les Kinsolving of "WorldNetDaily "
*Rob Reynalds of "Al Jazeera English "See also
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Canberra Press Gallery References
External links
* [http://www.whitehousepresscorps.org/ "White House Press Corps.org" home page. Daily Adventures with the White House Press Corps, in their own words.] .
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