Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Fox, NPR, AP move to better seats at White House

On Sunday, the White House Correspondents Association (WCHA) voted to reconfigure the seating chart for the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House. After columnist Helen Thomas (right in file shot) retired, NPR was one of three organizations that vied for her front-row, center seat, making its case on "audience size, national and international reach, presence at the daily briefings, regular service in the radio pool rotation and on White House travel both domestic and foreign." Ultimately, the WHCA decided to affix an Associated Press placard to it. Fox News will move to the front row — joining CNN, the broadcast networks, and the wire services. NPR will get a new seat in the second row, directly behind the AP. Picture provide a reporter's eye view of the camera gang at work and photograph of Helen Thomas in palmier times. NPR files

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