2024-03-30T06:22:28+00:00
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/ An American report, published yesterday, Friday, and causing an uproar in Washington, revealed the widespread phenomenon of theft of the belongings of the journalists’ room on board the US President’s plane, “Air Force One.”
According to what was reported by the American “Politico” website, over the years, dozens of journalists and others have quietly stuffed their bags before getting off the plane with everything, from engraved whiskey glasses to wine glasses and almost anything bearing the Air Force One insignia.
But last month, the White House Correspondents’ Association sent an email to its members with a stern warning that journalists’ preservation of items missing from the press room as mementos had not gone unnoticed.
The US President is accompanied when he travels by 13 journalists who sit in a cabin in the back of the Boeing presidential plane. The media pays the journalists’ travel costs, including the meals and drinks provided to them on board.
The cabin crew distributes only small bags of M&M’s chocolate chips bearing the presidential seal and the signature of the US President, while cups and other utensils bearing the “Air Force One” logo are available for purchase online.
But it seems that this is not enough for many reporters traveling on Air Force One. A Politico report described the sounds of dishes and glassware hitting each other inside the journalists’ backpacks as they got off the plane.
In one case, a former White House correspondent for a major newspaper hosted a dinner party, where food was served on a set of gilt-rimmed plates that had been stolen from Air Force One and assembled in stages, according to the report.
At least one reporter responded to the Correspondents’ Association’s rebuke, and a “secret” meeting was arranged between him and an official media official in a park opposite the White House to return an embroidered pillow he had seized from the correspondents’ cabin on board Air Force One, and the process was handed over from one hand to another. .