Hello, media consumers. This is the press box Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the

ringer here. We're going to talk to the ringers Palo Ugeti to get the latest on the NBA's

return to play some of the players interest in activism and how that could inform the

return of basketball this fall out of solemn duty. We'll also review the week and Donald

Trump from scheduling a rally in Tulsa on June 10th to demanding an apology from CNN

for a poll that showed him trailing Joe Biden. But first, David, I thought it would be useful

to spend a moment on the coronavirus, particularly the information about the coronavirus because

the White House stopped formal virus briefings 49 days ago. Anthony Fachi no longer has a daily

time slot. Dan Diamond reporter extraordinaire at Politico knows all about this stuff. Here's Dan

Diamond on the media and the coronavirus. All right, Dan, well into April. There was a daily

cable news event known as the White House coronavirus briefing. Donald Trump often center stage experts

like Drs. Anthony Fachi and Deborah Birx at his side. We study not only their information,

but their facial expressions. What happened to those briefings? Those briefings got taken over by

President Trump and quickly perverted from being a health and science briefing to essentially an

election rally held in the White House press briefing room. And eventually the feedback got to the

White House and President Trump that these briefings were not helpful that they ended up undermining

the administration's message on coronavirus, often stepping on what the science experts were trying

to say and backfiring on the president. I mean, famously near the end, he talked about the use of

bleach or light to eliminate coronavirus. That was almost the death knell for the briefings as

any going concern as a health and science update. And now they don't happen at all. It's been I think

49 days since we've had a formal coronavirus briefing from the White House. That sounds right.

And was this on purpose to the extent of President Trump has said many times that he doesn't think

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