Huckleberries: Journos come in gaggles, too

Geese aren’t the only strange birds that come in “gaggles,” according to Merriam-Webster. Journalists come in gaggles, too, because they fit the dictionary definition of “a group, aggregation or cluster lacking organization.” That certainly describes some of the press conferences I’ve attended in my 47 years as a newsman. M-W uses reporters and photographers as the example for its secondary definition of “gaggle.” Huckleberry Friend Jeanie Buchanan, of Spokane Valley, was thinking about the somewhat thinned ranks of White House journalists when she posted this information on her Facebook page Friday PM. The ones you hear quacking up outside Minister of Propaganda Sean Spicer’s office are from the understandably unrepentant New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Politico, Buzzfeed and much of the foreign media/ DFO , Huckleberries Tuesday. More here.