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here's a nice little article about the return of sanity to the white house press room

it's hard to summarize but after 4 years of utter shitshow this little vignette and commentary feels almost right out of the west wing tv show:

"White House press secretary Jen Psaki ended Tuesday’s press briefing with a quick exchange: “Thank you, Jen,” said Josh Boak, a White House reporter for the Associated Press. “Great,” replied Psaki. Then she put on her mask and headed out.

Those four words signaled the resurrection of an old White House briefing room tradition — observed under both Democratic and Republican administrations — in which the press secretary awaits the nod of the attending AP reporter before closing the book. (The privilege was initially assigned to the senior wire correspondent, but it eventually turned into an exclusively AP role.) Whereas her predecessor, Kayleigh McEnany, often ended briefings with scripted attacks on the media, Psaki has embraced a custom that accords the media a voice in the management of the briefing room."

the rest:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ing-tradition/

so fucking nice. may this never end, for fucks sakes