77 WABC and Newsmax host Greg Kelly recently featured a wide-ranging interview with former President Donald Trump on his cable news show. That led Kelly to talk about the role of White House correspondents and how often they deal with the 45th President.
During The Greg Kelly Show on 77 WABC, he shared his belief that being a reporter at the White House is an easy role because of the newsworthiness of the President’s comments.
“Every time the President says something, it’s news. It’s one of the secrets of why people like Peter Jennings, (Walter) Cronkite, that generation all wanted to be White House correspondents,” Kelly posited. “That’s why Tom Brokaw was a White House correspondent before they put them on the Today Show, and before they put them on the evening news.
“That’s one of the little secrets about the White House. It’s easy to be a reporter, in some respects, in that every time the President opens his mouth, it’s news. You don’t have to go hunting for it, if you want to do it that way, and most of them do it that way. ‘The President said this. The President said that.’ It all happens just a few feet from you. And, especially if you have a family or something like that, it’s easier. Yeah, the status and the prestige, is nice, but in a weird way, it’s easier.”
