wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (07/25/84)
Last night's presidential news conference (7/24/84) inspires this query: For such conferences, which are not held as a result of a particular incident, but just in the normal course of politics and national affairs, how much leadtime is available? How far in advance are they scheduled? I would think that such things would have been planned months in advance, subject to change due to emergencies or unforseen developments. Yet they are never listed in TV Guide; they always seem to be last-minute substitutions, with only a day or so notice given. Is this short notice for such routine events merely hype, to give the impression that there is some late news of overwhelming import, even though the content is merely the same old rhetoric? Or are these things really held on a spur-of-the-moment basis, so the White House staff has no idea that one will happen three weeks from now? Will