Biden’s Incoming Press Secretary: Briefings Won’t Be A Platform For Right-Wing Spin – By Steve Inskeep (NPR) / Dec 31 2020
President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for White House press secretary says she will restore a tradition. Unlike her immediate predecessors in the Trump administration, Jen Psaki plans to take questions from reporters each day.
Psaki has played similar roles before. She was the spokesperson for the State Department when John Kerry was secretary of state, then President Barack Obama’s communications director, and she now speaks for Biden.
“I think more than any point in history … part of the job of the White House press secretary is to rebuild trust with the American people,” she says in an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition.
President Trump’s first press secretary falsely claimed the biggest inauguration crowd in history. His last made false claims about Trump’s election defeat. Psaki promises to be “as fact-based as I can be.” She says she won’t limit right-wing media outlets’ access to White House briefings but adds that “we’re not going to allow the briefing room to be a platform for propaganda.”
