Press Officer Pillows

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

God hounded by the media.

"If we're going to keep this quite, we'll need a public enquiry."

'We don't have a press officer we have lawyers.'

"For a change of pace, you shout and answer and I'll make up a question."

"There will be a Q&A...but in this era of Trump I will be insulting anyone whose questions I don't like."

'This one is for keeping 'On Message' in the spin wars.'

"Here are today's leading factoids, and I'm Skip Shumaker, spoon-feeding them to you!"

The popular press overshadowing the serious press.

"Issue a press release that the financial director's departure was amicable."

'I have no excuse for the horrible way my team performed today. However, my assistant coaches are reviewing the tape, and we should have an excuse worked up by Monday morning.'

'No comment!'

Donald Trump versus the press

'Mr. President, I have a question, where's the mens' room?'

Free press.

Due to obsessive and intrusive attention by the Media, this news conference will be cancelled

"I've finished the press statement about the kraken."

'I agree with Nick.'

'Draft a press release. ... Say Mr. Buck was not 'yanked'. He, in fact, removed himself from the mound in order to spend more time with his family...'

'That's the new guy. He writes our 'shuck-and-jive' press releases.'

MI5 Press Office

Be Believable Anywhere, Anytime in these Quality Fib Overalls.

Newspaper suicide.

'You need a press officer!'

'While I was talking freedom of the press, the government was talking freedom from the press.'

Time to bury the news?

New primary care minister denies there is a 'crisis' in general practice.

"I've called this media conference to say...We have nothing to say!"

The Media and Terrorism

US Media

"No time for sound bites. Just give me a couple of sound nibbles."

Freedom of the Press

"If you want to know the time, I'll have to refer you to the press office."

Press Complaints Commission

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!