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Some worry that White House briefings are a broken tradition
NEW YORK – A few times each week, reporters sit in the White House briefing room to fire questions at the Trump administration's press secretary as she stands at a podium to respond.That visual, however, may be the only part of a time-honored government tradition that is familiar.Under Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press briefing has become a streamlined, full-throated advertisement for a president facing re-election, a venue for attacks on the media and a forum relatively light on information about what government is doing.ABC News' Jonathan Karl, whose term as White House Correspondents' Association president just ended, wrote in The Washington Post this month that he believed it is the White House press secretary's duty to hold