Dan Froomkin's excellent review of events in the Brady Briefing Room yesterday.

[Grasswire2]

His recently formed entity Presswatchers is a public service. He's a good guy.

Read his piece there also for the argument that questioning the president is a public service; no one but those reporters are allowed inside Trump's bubble.

[link:https://presswatchers.org/2020/04/cbss-paula-reid-and-cnns-kaitlan-collins-pierced-trumps-bubble-and-he-couldnt-handle-it/|

[MFGsunny]

1. A "must read" and a master class itself in the science/art of reporting.

Thanks for posting this, Grasswire2!

[Laelth]

2. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[CatWoman]

3. K; R

[crickets]

4. Fascinating article.

I felt a pang at the mention of Helen Thomas. She is missed.

Froomkin's points are well made overall, but I will firmly disagree with this one:

CNN’s aggressive use of a chyron Monday evening was good for a laugh, but arguably only made things worse. (sentence includes bothsiderist links)

The chyrons were an "emperor has no clothes" moment that the country desperately needed. I hope whoever was responsible still has a job because that *snap* to finally calling trump out for his lies was a public service.

[yonder]

5. Excellent article.