http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-sketch-artist-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer-2017-6
In response to the White House's recent trend of prohibiting cameras at press briefings, CNN on Friday said it sent its in-house Supreme Court sketch artist, Bill Hennessy, to Sean Spicer's latest press briefing.
CNN said it "equated press briefings to a Supreme Court argument -- an on-the-record event at which cameras are banned." The network argued sketches of the briefing had news value in the same way courtroom sketches do.
News organizations and the White House Correspondents' Association have protested the Trump administration's decision to scale back on-camera press briefings to unprecedented levels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @04:44PM
but that isn't news -- even the last administration acknowledged this definition of how employment numbers are counted. Each administration will even take advantage of something they claimed the previous one couldn't claim. It's like negative profit instead of taking a loss--the numbers are the same but the wording changes.
The propaganda in the media is the only difference. The actual means of accounting it has not differed between administrations.
Trump just went off script as usual. His (perhaps inadvertant or just unguarded) honesty is not a change in longstanding policy and rhetoric, but I think it caught people off-guard.