Jim Romenesko found this exchange between Howard Kurtz and Ari Fleischer on a "Reliable Sources" transcript:
KURTZ: In the various closed door meetings in this building, when press strategy is discussed, when are we going to put something out? Are we going to open this meeting to reporters, that sort of thing. Do you see yourself as being an advocate for the press?Now, I'm sure there will be a few liberals who'll say that Mr. Fleischer is stretching the truth a bit, but they're wrong. I don't think there is a press man-secretary in history who has been a better friend to the press. Mr Fleischer has worked hard to represent the interests of everyone from Rush to Fox News to the Washington Times and the Weekly Standard (which is run by that guy who played on that worldly Soap TV show--I'm glad he repented) inside the White House. I doubt they've ever had a better friend than Mr. Fleischer. He gave them all those scoops about Iraq's WMDs and how the poor will benefit from tax cuts. They didn't have to do any work at all. That's how accommodating Ari was.
FLEISCHER: I do. And that's one of the hardest things for anybody to understand about the press secretary job. My job is to be their advocate inside here, to try to get more access, to try to have interviews and questions, things of that nature.?
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