Inside the White House: ‘New Media’ Journalist Olohan on Power, the Press, and What You Don’t See

Working weekends, flights on Air Force One, and jockeying for position to ask presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt a question in the White House briefing room is all a part of life as a White House correspondent, according to Mary Margaret Olohan.  

As a member of the “new media” in the White House, Olohan says the interactions between reporters for the legacy media and journalists like herself have “by and large been pretty polite,” but notes little differences between the two groups remain.

For example, new media do not have a permanent seat in the briefing room, and Olohan jokes it is a little like the “Titanic, because there is the elite first class, and they sit in the seats, and then in the aisles, you have the second class of the citizens who don’t get seats.” 

Olohan, author of “Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,” spent years reporting on culture issues, including for The Daily Signal, before becoming the White House correspondent for The Daily Wire. She joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain the dynamic between the new and corporate media in the briefing room, and to share what will surprise most Americans about working as a White House correspondent.  

Also on today’s show, we discuss what democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary means for the Big Apple and the Democratic Party. Plus, we react to Brett Cooper, former host of “The Comments Section” at The Daily Wire, joining Fox News as a contributor.  

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