A New Washington Community

Simulation Roles

A stop-video exercise:  Sen Corker (Charlie Montgomery in the simulation)

A Blast from the Past:  the Dreyer Memo

Seating Chart for the White House Briefing Room:
The new environment (Malecha, 26):

Words uttered on talk radio and cable TV, once considered almost entirely disposable, are now etched onto servers around the world. They can end up on sites such as YouTube where they are viewed time and again by people well beyond the target audience. They can be redirected to potential critics via e-mail, as happened in this case. In other words, they live on and can come back to haunt the people responsible for them.

Opportunity for pushback

Newt talks about the new Washington of the 1980s.

Lobbying (data in the link do not account for outside lobbying)

• Contract lobbyists
• Communication consultants

Issue networks,

Revolving doors

• From the media to the executive branch
• Recent White House staff hires
• White House and tech

Jobs

• How tech changed communications staff work
• From the White House Chief Digital Officer

Mail, E-mail, and Congress