Hiding behind no camera/no audio gaggles View the discussion thread.
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Gaggles of exotics — Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys — regularly strut this pavement.
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He's not holding gaggles so he doesn't have to weigh in.
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Daily televised press briefings are gone, replaced by ad hoc off-camera gaggles.
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Those gaggles can last anywhere from a few minutes to a half hour.
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Reporters will commonly have more informal gaggles when White House press briefings aren't held.
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Gaggles of tiny children scampered up and down the colorful, bumpy walls around him.
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I see Spicer is continuing to have these gaggles that are now off camera.
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When Spicer returned last week, he conducted several briefings, or gaggles, with reporters off-camera.
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Behind him, gaggles of teenagers in rhinestones, plenty of whom still had braces on their teeth.
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The first 48 hours of this arrangement produced two lengthy mid-flight gaggles in as many days.
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But while it's led gaggles of daddies to harass me on Scruff, I've always had difficulty bottoming.
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But these so-called gaggles are typically interspersed among more formal briefings carried live on cable news.
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Clinton has had a total of nine "gaggles" -- or informal question and answer sessions with reporters -- in 3003.
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Since then, she's regularly held informal gaggles and press conferences -- but even this shift, it seemed, happened grudgingly.
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Senators, for example, left a briefing with administration officials about the virus only to quickly jump into gaggles.
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When he's not hosting rallies, he's holding press conferences, informal Q&A's, gaggles on Air Force One, etc.
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Donald Trump frequently holds press conferences and impromptu gaggles (his traveling press corps still travels on a separate plane).
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Gaggles of girlfriends teeter out on their stilettos, not caring about their aching feet, still owning their wardrobe armor.
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By noon, the sandy white beaches would be packed with sunbathers, gaggles of tipsy spring breakers, and children playing.
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We had arrived a year ago on the Fourth of July, and gaggles of shrieking children were cavorting and splashing.
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White House officials have often pointed to the president's frequent gaggles with reporters when explaining the decision to curb briefings.
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Later, he went down to talk to reporters in the press bullpen in one of his signature unscheduled off-camera gaggles.
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But briefings and gaggles in the White House are usually open to all outlets and they are free to ask anything.
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According to The Washington Post, Grisham has done only two off-camera "gaggles" and a single TV interview in that time.
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The real reason for the push toward off-camera gaggles is this: The White House knows that we are a visual culture.
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Since then she had held 11 "gaggles" -- or informal press conferences -- taking questions from a few members of her traveling press corps.
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Today, gaggles of French, English, Chinese and Indian students sit hunched over computers at cafes, chatting on Facebook or writing on Twitter.
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Students in skinny jeans, button-down shirts and thick black glasses gathered in gaggles by the flagpoles, checking their phones and chatting.
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In lieu of on-camera briefings, the White House has held off-camera briefings and gaggles, allowing audio recordings of the sessions.
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In addition to bringing back daily briefings, I will hold at least one presidential press conference per month, plus occasional gaggles and availabilities.
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And once-regular off-camera gaggles, usually held for Pentagon reporters on a weekly basis, have ceased to exist since late last year.
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Sewell's descriptions are marvelous — explaining when gaggles of geese become skeins of geese, or why swirling hawks suggest boiling water in a kettle.
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It's simply a fundamental misconception of journalism," Boutrous said, adding how unscheduled gaggles and source meetings throughout the White House amounted to "invaluable access.
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And he became accustomed to being stopped in the street for his autograph and greeted at the stage doors by gaggles of screaming fans.
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A better option: My girlfriend and I like to walk around neighborhoods and mingle with gaggles of tourists taking selfies in front of signs.
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Just below the surface, the music sizzles with modernist harmonies, fractured phrases, gaggles of counterpoint and lyrical strands that keep breaking into skittish bits.
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I felt pretty out of place at Disney Springs, which is made for families, couples, and gaggles of friends drinking around the world at Epcot.
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"We have urged the White House not to replace on-camera briefings with 'gaggles,' not-for-broadcast question & answer sessions," Mason said in a statement.
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In Remedios, we spent most nights in the town's main square, drinking and watching as gaggles of teenage girls paraded, arms linked, and ignored catcalls.
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In September, Warren told the media she would become more accessible in the Senate hallways, after years of avoiding impromptu gaggles with the national media.
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A few bodegas and a fried chicken spot were open, supported by gaggles of hungry young people bubbling up from the subway every few minutes.
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Democratic meetings with Garland have frequently included a photo-op and short gaggles with reporters, which have given fresh opportunities for Democratic senators to slam Republicans.
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During the cold winter months, it sometimes witnesses impromptu gaggles with White House officials following TV interviews that are otherwise conducted on the White House driveway.
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Clinton stepped into the back cabin for brief, informal gaggles with reporters twice this week, but Thursday marked her first proper press conference in about 10 months.
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Hundreds of riot police could be seen resting and re-grouping overnight while gaggles of protesters obtained fresh supplies of water, googles and helmets, Reuters witnesses reported.
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"She has done an average of about two media interviews a day in 2016 alone, along with several informal gaggles with press who travel with us," Merrill said.
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And as most of us have realized by now, where there are Pokémon, there will be gaggles of teens trying to catch them in exchange for digital candy.
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If you've played on a soccer field or strolled past a golf course in the United States, you've doubtless seen gaggles of Canada geese terrorizing those public spaces.
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He also says he doesn't "speak" to principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah, who has frequently briefed the press from the podium and in gaggles on the president's behalf.
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Cruz has avoided any onstage attacks of Trump's record since Thursday's debate, when the two went after one another, instead unleashing his barbs for press gaggles after his events.
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Gaggles of tourists and locals alike gather around the box and tie their bags to a thin wooden plank on the side, letting the eggs sink below the surface.
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His frequent gaggles with reporters (more than his predecessor!) means he speaks directly to news outlets in ways that aren't possible in a briefing hosted by his press secretary.
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And there is concern that Trump's tendency to shoot from the hip on Twitter and during impromptu press gaggles will land him and his team in further legal jeopardy.
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For months, the president's top campaign aides have been monitoring media reactions to his speeches, press gaggles and tweets, hunting for the next gaffe they can spin into gold.
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During the transition and since Trump's inauguration, members of the White House press pool have been left out of events, misled to incorrect locations, and barred from press gaggles.
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Mark Knoller, a CBS News reporter and the unofficial statistician of the White House press corps, counted 54 formal briefings in 2018, plus a few gaggles on Air Force One.
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Gaggles of background voices often congregate behind Rapsody's throaty, enthusiastic drawl to taunt her and cheer her on, and she raps with most gusto when talking directly to other voices.
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Those scandals continued to mount throughout his trip, and White House officials have remained largely silent on them, although aides took a few questions in media gaggles and conference calls.
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In between the increasingly rare briefings, the administration has scattered Air Force One gaggles and off-camera briefings in which reporters are often barred from even broadcasting audio recordings of the proceedings.
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Tired of seeing "people I don't even know" at the breakfast table and gaggles of bare-breasted nymphets by the pool, Conrad has put a damper on the mansion's traditional freewheeling fleshfest.
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Washington (CNN)As 20 candidates warm up for the second round of Democratic presidential debates in Detroit, 11-year-old freelance reporter Jaden Jefferson is proving his hustle in press gaggles and interviews.
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Henry, however, said the press corps is getting lost in its criticisms of the White House, which has held fewer on-camera press briefings in recent weeks, opting instead for off-camera gaggles.
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At the conference, which was closed to journalists, hundreds of donors and operatives kibitzed and debated the lessons of the midterms and the party's options for 2020 in formal sessions and sideline gaggles.
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Mr. Trump has done away with regular White House press briefings, replacing them with on-the-fly gaggles in which reporters often must hurl questions at him over the roar of Marine One.
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Trump -- who frequently references the US economy and low unemployment rates in tweets, during meetings with world leaders and in gaggles and interviews with reporters -- often complains he doesn't get enough credit for successes.
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This was the Parkland students' afternoon: darting in and out of the press room to watch and film candidates' brief press gaggles, holding court with reporters, and occasionally stopping to greet an old friend.
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By Tuesday morning, Warren had held two media gaggles, appeared on two Sunday shows and done three other TV interviews where the issue came up, and the frequent premise was that she had wobbled.
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The sense of two parallel realities grows stronger as I return to my hotel in Titusville, where gaggles of tourists take selfies with replica astronaut suits and locals share beers over the latest SpaceX gossip.
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Spicer could also land in hot water if he did the same thing less overtly—that is, if he abolished traditional briefings and replaced them as a matter of course with gaggles with friendly journalists.
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And I spoke up about the absence of any sort of strategy for actually defeating terrorism, annoying the increasing gaggles of those who seemed to accept that a state of perpetual war was a necessity.
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The new normal became ad hoc gaggles on the White House walkway: disorganized scrums where reporters who happen to be on the grounds can shout questions at Ms. Sanders as she walks back to her office.
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Walmart, the world's biggest retailer, is counting on a 6-year-old YouTube star to draw in gaggles of other pint-sized shoppers clamoring for bubble pets, T-shirts and capsules full of lime-green slime.
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From Bolivian Caporales dancers bedazzled in sequins, to stilt-walking, scantily clad Brazilian Carnival dancers, to gaggles of kids in tap shoes, the breadth of New York's stunning diversity was on display throughout the drizzly spring afternoon.
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SAN DIEGO — The first thing you notice in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter is not the brick sidewalks, the rows of bars and the roving gaggles of bachelorette parties and conferencegoers, or even the actual gas lamps.
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Trump's White House has reduced access to the president in official Oval Office press gaggles, and his press secretaries call on explicitly pro-Trump and conservative outlets more than their predecessors (and nonpartisan outlets, by extension, less often).
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Like a Davos for the once-powerful, this mission is attracting gaggles of global grandees, as ex-presidents, former prime ministers and retired diplomats lend their weight to the effort to save the world they used to run.
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At the time, that city meant only two things to the music world: Snoop Dogg and Sublime, neither of which bore any resemblance to the black-clad gaggles of goths that converged for early editions of Das Bunker.
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In tweets and impromptu press gaggles, the president has accused the Fed of undermining what he has called "a very strong economy" by not providing greater stimulus, even as the U.S. runs well ahead of other leading powers.
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In the most bizarre of circumstances, White House spokesman Sean Spicer conducted one the most unorthodox gaggles of his career, in the dark at night, dwarfed by a large shrub at the side of the White House North Lawn.
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The sudden burst of appearances from top administration officials has been a welcome sight for reporters after press briefings were largely abandoned last year in favor of appearances on Fox News and impromptu gaggles on the White House driveway.
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I don't dawdle, and even when walking at high speeds, I'm courteous — always willing to sway to one side, change speed in traffic or even take wide berths around large, lost, child-toting or otherwise compromised gaggles of pedestrians.
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He also ruffled feathers with members of the media, refusing to take journalists from the State Department press corps along on early foreign trips and avoiding interviews and press gaggles -- opportunities to clarify foreign policies to the American people.
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Perry's squint-eyed rebel, Dylan McKay, may have superseded costar Jason Priestley's transplanted Minnesota do-gooder, Brandon Walsh, as TV's big man on campus, with gaggles of adolescent girls—and grown women—tuning in to watch him brood each Thursday night.
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Each April, the small town on Indio, California gets an Instagram facelift when it's encroached by gaggles of celebrities, influencers, and festival fans who all share the same quest: wear edgy outfits, take hundreds of photos, and listen to awesome music.
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"Though they are useful and can play an important role in informing the press and the public, gaggles are not a substitute for the open back-and-forth between reporters and administration officials that regular televised briefings allow," he said.
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"Omarosa, I don't know how anyone likes you, honestly," Mr. Trump chirped in one boardroom scene, as he mulled over firing her with the same mix of insouciance and venom that he performs during press gaggles in the West Wing today.
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Gaggles are one thing, but if Spicer banned disfavored journalists from briefings held in the White House press room with large groups of journalists, viewpoint-based exclusions from a forum traditionally open to a wide range of reporters could cross the legal line.
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But elements of the once-lost glittering age are re-emerging, thanks to a new breed of hotels, complete with public pools, pillowed banquettes, outdoor movie nights and gaggles of fashionable locals who have turned these transitory spaces into permanent hot spots.
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The strip, Avenida Principal, is filled from morning to well after midnight with holidaymakers; in La Pedrera, you'll encounter everyone from groups of 20-somethings staying at campsites and forming drum circles to parents herding gaggles of young children down to the beach.
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There were a lot of families with younger children, adding to the theme park vibe, along with gaggles of teenagers and older fans decked out in e-sports jerseys representing Faze Clan, TSM, and even Overwatch League teams like the New York Excelsior and Los Angeles Gladiators.
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There are the bland European restaurants near the neo-Gothic church of St Catherine, kebab shops and Arab cafés around the Boulevard Anspach, gaggles of tourists on the Grand Place and then, up the hill, the windswept avenues and often hideous architecture of the European Union's institutions.
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David Middleton, co-owner of Bewilder Box, a game in Brighton, says that the various groups that visit them—not just gaggles of teenagers but also stag parties, corporate teambuilding events and grandparents taking their families out for the day—keep them filled up all week, keeping margins healthy.
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier, whose network did attend the briefing, said on Twitter that White House gaggles "should be open to all credentialed" organizations, and referenced a time when CNN and the New York Times stood with Fox News when the Obama administration tried to exclude them.
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In my 20s, I moved downtown to the Lower East Side, where gaggles of kids — ninjas, Power Rangers, that ubiquitous ghostface "Scream" mask — would be herded from discount stores to sneaker spots to Chinese takeout restaurants with their plastic bags open and thrust forward like the mouths of baby birds.
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In response to criticism over the lack of briefings, Sanders and others in the administration have noted that White House officials regularly take questions during impromptu gaggles and that Trump will field questions as he departs for Marine One or during pool sprays when a small group of reporters are able to shout questions.
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Glancing around the room, there's the sort of mix you might expect: groups of women in their late twenties and early thirties; gaggles of younger punters on their phones and sloshing handfuls of beer in plastic cups as they jostle to the front; couples in their forties and older, nestled close to each other.
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There are a million subplots, but that's the basic conflict, as gaggles of superheroes (minus The Hulk and Thor, who are conveniently out of town like your Canadian high school girlfriend) line up on one side or another, leading to an inevitable and legitimately awesome set piece in which all the heroes fight each other in an airplane hangar.
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For this reason, evaluation of the president's statements — in tweets, in phone conversations, at press gaggles, and the like — should turn not on whether the precise elements of a federal crime like witness tampering have been met, but rather on whether the statements constitute, or contribute to, abuses of the public trust that justify the president's impeachment and removal from office.
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As president, he's flouted elementary rules about nepotism and conflict of interest; undermined the independence of the judiciary by impugning judges overseeing cases involving him or his administration; obstructed justice by firing James Comey after he refused to pledge loyalty to him; and arbitrarily limited media access by, for instance, replacing daily White House press briefings with off-camera gaggles where recording is banned.
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