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You are basically shouting at a press release for not answering a question it wasn't written to answer
Exactly right. I've been a press officer before. If you step outside the briefing in front of the press then you get the Al Pachino speech from Glengarry Glen Ross
promptly afterward.
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No spokesperson worth their salt would answer that question without having had it explicitly given to them in the prebriefing before facing the press. It kind of shows up the limitations of spokespeople and how the system can be abused by asking questions the person is not allowed to answer. You are basically shouting at a press release for not answering a question it wasn't written to answer.