President-elect Trump’s attempt to fundamentally transform the way Washington works, as seen in his selections for cabinet secretaries, won’t be complete until he transforms the White House briefing room.

That hallowed hall, which holds 49 seats for 49 of the most important reporters in America, is a throwback to the 1980s. In the 21st century, when Americans consume news in ways that would have been unrecognizable 40 years ago, the briefing room is the last bastion of the mainstream media’s heyday, when everyone watched and read them because there was no alternative.

Despite the fact that the readership and viewership of newspapers and network news shows has plummeted, the first rows of the briefing room are occupied by reporters from the Washington Post, New York Times, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News and a few others, just like it was 40 years ago when those seats were installed by President Ronald Reagan.

It doesn’t matter that most of those news outlets have been famously inaccurate in their reporting — from their nonstop coverage alleging Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, to the........

© The Hill