The press corps wants a White House reality show?

At 8:00 a.m. he had his normal briefings. At 10:50 a.m. — the President is just now getting ready to depart — the President will visit with wounded military personnel at the National Naval Medical Center, in Bethesda, and that is closed press. The President will visit with patients and will award Purple Hearts. This is his seventh visit with patients at the National Naval Medical Center. Q Why is it closed? MR. STANZEL: So he can have private conversations with troops and their families. Q But don’t you think it would be interesting to see who gets the medals? MR. STANZEL: I’m sure a lot of things that the President does might be very interesting. But the President wants to have private conversations. We will release — however, Helen, we will release photos of the President awarding those Purple Hearts. So you’ll see it.

Until the WH takes up Tim’s call for transcript reform, we can only assume that it was Helen Thomas who asked the question.