Thursday, June 29, 2017

Reporters find fame after combative White House press briefings


By Eddie Scarry, The Washington Examiner

It's probably safe to say that White House spokesman Sean Spicer wasn't happy when a little-known reporter launched a tirade at his colleague Sarah Sanders during a press briefing on Tuesday and accused her of "inflammatory" remarks toward the press.

The confrontation came just a week after Spicer had accused reporters covering the Trump administration of using the briefings, which are often carried live on camera, to get attention for themselves.

"There's a lot of them that want to become YouTube stars and ask some snarky question that's been asked eight times," Spicer had said on the radio.

Sure enough, Brian Karem, who covers the White House for the Maryland-based Montgomery County Sentinel and has also been a columnist for Playboy, criticized Sanders for "inflaming everyone" in her broadsides against the news media. His value on the Internet and TV spiked immediately.

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