Black Press Seen, Not Heard at WH Press Conference
The Obama Administration may have switched up the seating chart at last night's press conference but black-press journos say that their VIP seats are the only attention they received.
The Obama Administration may have switched up the seating chart at last night’s press conference but black-press journos say that their VIP seats are the only attention they received.
Joseph Curl, Senior Nat’l Political Correspondent for The Wash Times reports that Black Press of America’s Hazel Edney and Tiffany Cross of BET were shocked to discover they had scored front row seats at Obama’s first prime-time presser. A first for both, they found themselves sitting among the likes of Helen Thomas, Reuters and the AP while every TV news network had been downgraded to the second row or beyond.
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