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How the Media Covers the White House class for spring, 2017 will discuss and analyze how correspondents cover the White House. We will watch and discuss the beginning of the 45th president and their new administration and how the traditional and social media cover the new president. In addition, the class will look at the media strategy of the new administration and how the newly inaugurated 45th president will use social media and traditional media to promote their new policies We are at the start of a new administration, so we can study how a new president sets up their media operation. We will look at the new press operation of the White House and compare it to previous administrations through our history. We will discuss how the various media assign their new White House reporters. We will have White House correspondents as guest speakers for the class. This will be a lively, interactive and interesting class looking at the media covering the new White House and how the new president presents themselves to the American public.