DAVID MARCUS: Independent media balances out the hate at WH briefings

When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced astatine the precise opening of President Donald Trump’s 2nd word that caller and autarkic media would beryllium invited to play a large relation successful covering the administration, the corporate oculus rotation from accepted media was arsenic contiguous arsenic it was condescending.

We each retrieve Trump’s archetypal term, erstwhile his property conferences often devolved into a full-contact sport, with erstwhile CNN analogous Jim Acosta wrestling a pistillate White House adjutant for the microphone, for example, amid thing but changeless "gotcha" questions.

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The snarky backmost and distant from the media successful those days created entertainment, but a batch much vigor than light. The White House property successful Trump’s archetypal word sought ever to exposure Trump for this oregon that, but astir ne'er to genuinely recognize the administration’s policies.

There were exceptions, of course, specified arsenic your favourite cablegram quality network, whose White House correspondents play it down the mediate nary substance who’s successful office. But successful general, Trump faced a regular inquisition, portion his successor, President Biden, much oregon little got a escaped walk passim his abysmal 4 years arsenic president.

 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the regular White House property briefing astatine the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House connected February 25, 2025 successful Washington, DC. Leavitt held a quality briefing to reply questions from members of the press. ( (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images))

Today, the summation of autarkic outlets specified arsenic Epoch News, The Post Millennial, OAN, and others has transformed Trump’s property availabilities from a hackling shouting match, into a substantive, astir regular treatment of the administration's actions and priorities.

With the exemption of the recalcitrant Associated Press, which has weirdly decided to dice connected the elevation of defending the sanction "Gulf of Mexico," each the aged Trump haters from The New York Times to NBC News are inactive successful the room; they conscionable don’t wholly predominate it anymore.

If you perceive to a quality league with Trump now, arsenic opposed to 5 years ago, you bash not travel distant with the content that helium is immoderate benignant of pariah who everyone hates and thinks is simply a liar. We person a afloat spectrum of media successful there, and it has brought comity to the process, but determination are inactive pugnacious questions, too.

Does the new, mostly conservative, media successful the White House flip up immoderate softballs? Sure. Are the online convey yous to Leavitt for opening up the country a spot saccharine? Certainly. 

But compared to what? A mainstream media that conscionable nodded on arsenic erstwhile White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told america Biden was acceptable arsenic a fiddle and she was a precise important humanities figure? Spare me.

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The information of the substance is that outlets similar the Daily Caller oregon adjacent Steve Bannon’s War Room, are nary much biased to the close than NPR, a long-time staple successful the Oval Office, is biased to the left, nor are they abnormal. Even ace leftwing California Gov. Gavin Newson conscionable had Bannon connected his caller podcast.

For 4 years, we had a White House property corps that, with the objection of Fox News and Real Clear Politics, ran screen for Biden and KJP. Even CNN’s Jake Tapper is present retired with a book, fundamentally apologizing for the wide media’s horrible sum of Grandpa Joe.

So if we each admit that the property did a unspeakable disservice to the American radical with its one-sided and farcical sum of Biden, past however tin we kick that some sides of the American governmental disagreement are present represented successful the room?

Seventy percent of Americans bash not spot journalism today, and for highly bully reasons similar those outlined above. I'm a journalist, and adjacent I don’t spot journalism. But this caller attack from the White House could beryllium a measurement successful restoring immoderate level of trust.

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Americans cognize erstwhile they are lone getting 1 broadside of the story, we person a basal consciousness of fairness that rankles erstwhile we spot the almighty enactment a thumb connected the scale, and by inviting each perspectives successful the room, the White House is allowing america to measurement arguments freely and fairly.

I came up successful autarkic blimpish media, penning for outlets including The Federalist and The Daily Wire, which person unwavering commitments to honesty. Of course, they beryllium successful the White House, and everyone is amended disconnected for their beingness there.

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To crook an aged saying upside down, "if it's broke, hole it," and the quality media’s sum of the White House, for years now, has been severely broken, maybe, conscionable maybe, these caller and formerly banished voices successful the Oval Office are conscionable what we request to hole it.

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