For the past month and a half, Associated Press journalists who cover the White House have existed in a state that one reporter likened to Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment about a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive.
“The AP could be spotted in the parking lot directly across from the entrance to the club, continuing Schrödinger’s Pool Duty at a safe remove from we the official ones,” Washington Post reporter Michael Birnbaum wrote in a March 8 pool report.
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George Washington University professor Frank Sesno, a former White House correspondent for CNN, agreed with the AP’s argument about the value of in-person access.
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