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How you feel about this fourth season of the #1 rated reality show in America “President Trump vs The Media” will color how you feel about such things.
The latest tempest in the Brady Briefing Room Teacup was the continuing adjustment to the now-daily coronavirus pressers and their platforming of not just the taskforce leading the response, but of the president himself. Which makes the president and his interactions with the correspondents in the room the focus, since that is the main attraction of these daily shows, despite the title and situation at hand.
And that is causing problems and consternation both from those up front and those socially spaced in every third seat on the floor:
Vice President Mike Pence’s office has reversed itself and will now allow two top public health officials to appear on CNN, after earlier blocking the medical professionals from appearing on the network because it has not carried the nightly White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings in their entirety.
Earlier in the day, CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that Pence’s office had withheld the health experts from the network out of upset that the network had not carried the portion of the press briefings that include the Vice…
