Hume: White House Briefings Are TV Drama, Not Real Information

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HUME: “But most of the time the briefings aren’t very helpful under any administration. The best press secretary in my time was Marlin Fitzwater who was there for Reagan and then later for Bush, he was very good, but often times the briefings aren’t particularly informative. I usually had a crossword puzzle open in front of me at the briefings. And after a while, during the Clinton administration, they got to be so uninformative that I didn’t even go. I was in a booth in the back, I could hear, but I was busy with other things. These briefings have become a certain kind of TV drama day by day. But it's really not for the purpose of information, and no good reporter worth his or her salt would rely on the briefings to get the news.”