Seating Chart for the New Briefing Room

The Defense Department’s so-called “rotation” program, which kicked large news organizations like NPR and CNN out of their Pentagon workspaces and replaced them with smaller, fiercely pro-Trump media outlets, has prepared longtime correspondents for more changes.

Every disruption has pointed in the same predictable direction: toward media coverage that upholds the administration’s agenda rather than challenging it.

Right-wing podcasters and online content producers would probably be added to a Trump-controlled briefing seating chart, though the White House might encounter some real-world obstacles. Many of the conservative opinion show hosts and pro-Trump personalities who have large online followings don’t reside in Washington, DC, and aren’t particularly inclined to attend press conferences.

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