White House press secretary Sarah Sanders outside the West Wing of the White House on May 8. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Media criticWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders didn’t make much news Wednesday morning when she spoke with the “Fox & Friends” crew about current affairs. During the ongoing no-briefing skid, Sanders has appeared at least 12 times on various Fox News programs, as follows: March 12 (“Outnumbered Overtime”), March 25 (“America’s Newsroom”), April 2 (“America’s Newsroom”), April 4 (“Fox & Friends”), April 14 (“Fox News Sunday”), April 18 (“Hannity”), April 22 (“Fox & Friends”), April 29 (“Fox & Friends”), May 2 (“America’s Newsroom”), May 4 (“Watters’ World”), May 16 (“Fox & Friends”) and May 22 (“Fox & Friends”). In swapping briefings for Fox News, Sanders is merely modeling the behavior of her boss. The Post’s View: The White House daily briefings are disappearing — as are democratic normsErik Wemple: Ten takeaways from Sarah Sanders’s disappearance from White House briefingsErik Wemple: Sarah Sanders says reporters are ‘angry’ in the briefing room.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2019 20:15 UTC