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Few Journos In White House ‘Skype Seat’

by TVNewsCheck

Using Skype, the video-call app, the White House has extended the daily question-and-answer sessions for the first time to people in far-flung locales. The innovation, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in an interview, “has been very successful bringing in additional reporters beyond the Beltway.” Except that many of the people who have occupied the “Skype seat” aren’t reporters at all.