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No humour or joke just what it is
from PBS correspondent Lucy P Marcus
https://twitter.com/lucymarcus/status/580813840167923712/photo/1
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Cable news gets ahead of NPR and the NY Times? NY Post gets closer than the BBC?
Maybe the reason BBC is in the back row is because the person in charge of the seating chart REALLY REALLY likes Top Gear??
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I'd think they could take away one of those spots and allot another foreign press spot. Heck, they could use another half dozen foreign press spots.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Just kidding.
Seating is assigned by the White House Correspondents Association, not the White House itself.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)That makes sense now. But it still begs the question as to why Fox gets represented when they are not news but entertainment? Even if its done through the Correspondents Association, you would assume someone in the Association would raise an objection, no?
I still think someone is pissed off that the BBC fired Jeremy Clarkson.
Takket
(21,655 posts)If Fox News, which in open court has stated they are an entertainment network, can get a seat, why shouldn't The Onion?