Olivier Knox on the disappearing W.H. press briefing, access to government info, and more
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the daily White House press briefing? |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah? I barely do and that's a problem. |
| 0:10.0 | The press briefing now is more like a weekly feature if we're lucky. |
| 0:15.0 | But just counting the number of on-camera briefings doesn't tell the whole story either. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to this week's Reliable Sources Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host Brian Stelter, |
| 0:26.0 | and this weekly podcast is our chance to go in depth |
| 0:29.0 | with media leaders and newsmakers. |
| 0:32.0 | This week, I'm joined by one of the leaders of the White House |
| 0:34.8 | Press Corps. Olivier Knox is the president of the White House Correspondence Association |
| 0:39.4 | as well as the Chief Washington Correspondent for Serious XM radio covering the White House politics and foreign policy. |
| 0:46.0 | Olivier, great to see you. |
| 0:48.0 | Thanks for having me, Ryan. |
| 0:49.0 | Both your gigs are pretty new. |
| 0:51.0 | How's it going on the radio since we're here in an audio format |
| 0:55.5 | tell me what it's like to be going from Yahoo to Sirius? Well it's it's a real challenge |
| 1:00.2 | going from print to broadcast you know this is probably not a not a foreign concept to you but |
| 1:04.9 | one of the hardest things that I've had to adjust to is when do I interrupt a |
| 1:09.0 | guest when do I correct a guest when do I cut someone off to say let's not use that acronym let's flush out the a That's been the biggest challenge so far, but it's been a heck of a lot of fun and if you want to hear my halting sort of toddler-like steps on the radio, tune in 6 PM Eastern on channel 124 at SeriousXM. |
| 1:32.0 | That's right, 6 o'clock Eastern time. |
| 1:33.5 | At the same time you've been taking over the White House |
| 1:36.2 | Correspondence Association. |
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