Romenesko

New York Times
"It was a huge error on my part," says former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry. "It has turned into a theater of the absurd." The televised briefings hurt reporters the most, though. "The public hates the people in that room," McCurry tells Katharine Q. Seelye. "My standing up there and getting pelted with rotten tomatoes during Monica probably helped Bill Clinton because people say, 'What is wrong with the people in this room?' "