White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders departs after holding a press briefing at the White House on Tuesday. The American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara collects data on press briefings over time. Daily press briefings used to be daily, as shown below. (At the end of that briefing, reporter Andrew Feinberg yelled, “Do your job!”) The most contentious exchanges for a press secretary came under Barack Obama’s final press secretary, Josh Earnest. Under Sanders, to be somewhat arch, the daily press briefing has evolved into the monthly press berating.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2018 18:11 UTC