How will Team Trump revise the seating chart or the questioner list at the White House briefing when new press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes the podium in January? Would they dare to put conservative media in the front row? Managing editor Curtis Houck brings all his daily monitoring of the briefings to the table.
People close to Trump have suggested he should dramatically change who is placed in the front rows of the briefing room. Routinely, it has been Fox, the liberal networks, Reuters and the Associated Press. Could Trump put conservative (or less liberal) media outlets in the front row to symbolize the growing trust problem with legacy media?
Currently, the seating chart is determined by a committee of four members of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) board. But Team Trump could impose their vision.
“It would be a total mess,” one White House reporter told The Hillnewspaper. “I …