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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-sketch-artist-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer-2017-6 [businessinsider.com]

In response to the White House's recent trend of prohibiting cameras at press briefings, CNN on Friday said [cnn.com] 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 [businessinsider.com] have protested the Trump administration's decision to scale back on-camera press briefings to unprecedented levels.

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