New WH chief of staff Josh Bolten appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday, and he “tipped his hand in only one area, suggesting that the White House might stop allowing its daily news briefing to be televised in full in hopes of discouraging posturing for the cameras and toning down the confrontational atmosphere,” the Washington Post reports.
“Bolten said he would leave it up to new press secretary Tony Snow to decide whether to reverse that. ‘It’s worth considering,’ Bolten said. ‘I think that will be Tony Snow’s first test to see what kind of power player he really is and whether he’s able to establish the right kind of relationship with the press that we need going forward.'”
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