White House-press relations worse than ever, report says

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stopped holding off-the-record gaggles in the mornings in his office “because reporters would just stand around tweeting everything Earnest said,” according to CJR.

Part of the problem, the study found, was the quick nature of the news cycle. Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs complained that no one asked Obama about the Senate torture report in a December press conference, held two weeks after its release.

“Gibbs said a good question for his former boss would have been, ‘How do you balance, Mr. President, your first act, of outlawing this [torture]’ with ‘watching a 6,000-page report being issued during your administration, in which you held no one accountable’ for the behavior. ‘And then just step back’ and hear the president reflect on it, Gibbs said.”