Media Trash.(journalists leave White House press room in a mess)(Brief Article)

Newsweek International, May, 2001

The neat-freak Bushies are increasingly dismayed by the sloppy habits of the media. At the end of the day the White House press room is consistently littered with half-full cartons of Thai takeout, coffee spills and crumpled newspapers. The Bushies aren't the only ones who've noticed. After a recent tour of the briefing room, a 12-year-old girl wrote Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: "The press doesn't clean up after itself.

The White House should consider not cleaning up after them." An "intriguing" idea, says Fleischer. PERI notes that NEWSWEEK's White House correspondent doesn't eat Thai food or spill her coffee.