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<\/a>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer takes questions during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, March 7, 2017. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
RACHEL STOLTZ
\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n
White House correspondents upset with the Trump administration\u2019s shakeup of the pecking order in the briefing room are starting to see\u00a0reporters from conservative outlets as an \u201cexistential threat,\u201d according to the March issue of The New Yorker.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil recently, the more established White House correspondents have regarded floaters as a harmless distraction\u2014the equivalent of letting a batboy sit in the dugout,\u201d Andrew Marantz writes in The New Yorker<\/a>, referring to reporters from outlets more or less\u00a0ignored by prior administrations. \u201cNow they are starting to see the floaters as an existential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n Press Secretary Sean Spicer has made a point of highlighting\u00a0conservative and outsider outlets in his briefings, including The New York Post and The Daily Caller, often giving them the first question<\/a> rather than mainstream outlets such as The Associated Press accustomed to getting priority.\u00a0The ongoing\u00a0nature of the shakeup\u00a0is\u00a0getting to some of the\u00a0White House reporters, who perhaps thought things would return to \u201cnormal\u201d after Spicer finished\u00a0making a political\u00a0point.<\/p>\n \u201cHistorically, the way the briefing room has been organized is, the closer you are, the farther you\u2019ve come,\u201d CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett told The New Yorker. \u201cAnd the person at the podium has tended to recognize that.\u201d<\/p>\n