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Problematic Women

Inside The White House: Mary Margaret Olohan on Power, Press, and What You Don’t See

Problematic Women

The Daily Signal

News Commentary, News, Entertainment News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Working weekends, flights on Air Force One, and jockeying for position to ask press secretary Karoline Leavitt a question in the briefing room is all a part of life as a White House correspondent, according to Mary Margaret Olohan.     As a member of the “new media” in the White House, Olohan says the interactions between the corporate media reporters and journalists like herself are "by and large been pretty polite," but notes little differences between the two groups remain. For example, new media do not have a permanent seat in the briefing room, and Olohan jokes it is a little like the “Titanic because there is the elite first class and they sit in the seats, and then in the aisles you have the second class of the citizens who don't get seats.”    Olohan, author of “Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,” spent years reporting on culture issues, including for The Daily Signal, before becoming the White House correspondent for The Daily Wire. She joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain the dynamic between the new and corporate media in the briefing room, and to share what will surprise most Americans about working as a White House correspondent.     Also on today’s show, we discuss what Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary means for the Big Apple and the Democrat Party. Plus, we react to Brett Cooper joining Fox News as a contributor.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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