To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Congress, Take the Mic!
We petition Congress to begin holding its own daily press briefings to provide informative and fact-based reports of the government’s activities, as a corrective to the disinformation promulgated by the Bannon-led White House. We further petition major news outlets to make a priority of covering these Congressional press briefings.
Why is this important?
We are being seriously misled and misinformed by Trump and his administration (White House press briefings being the most obvious example), and we see no hope that this will change. Therefore, we call for Congress to exert its co-equal power and begin holding its own press briefings, so that major news outlets can report complete and reliable information about our government’s activities. Press briefings committed to truth-telling would not only help to restore the press to its proper role; they would help ordinary citizens to become well-informed voters.