New US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy had them at her first media conference interjection: when the white, stale male journalist (the self-outing Hugh Riminton) cut across a female journalist she asked incredulously to the whirring cameras with Kennedy-esque pause,:‘Did you just talk over a woman?’
The whole room of cynical journalists swooned and the twitterverse went into a collective cuddle as they celebrated the arrival of one of their pro-nouned own and America was almost forgiven for electing Trump.
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Michael Scammell was a media officer for the US Consulate in Melbourne
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