Press-room optics and authority: C.J. Cregg's reordering of briefing-room staging sparks a press confrontation (Mitch and others) about access and status; C.J. must manage face‑saving, control of television optics, and the press corps' institutional ex...
Press-room optics and authority: C.J. Cregg's reordering of briefing-room staging sparks a press confrontation (Mitch and others) about access and status; C.J. must manage face‑saving, control of television optics, and the press corps' institutional expectations.
Events in This Arc
In a tightly controlled White House briefing, C.J. reframes international concern over the Shehab missile tests as a multilateral, diplomatic issue—deliberately deflecting any implication of presidential culpability. When pressed about …
Immediately after a brisk press briefing on Shehab, APEC and routine cabinet resignations, reporter Mitch accosts Press Secretary C.J. about her decision to move the news magazines' seats back. Mitch …
C.J. defuses a brewing confrontation over press seating by yielding publicly to Mitch while inventing a procedural compromise that preserves his dignity and the White House's control. She apologizes, restores …