The Big Dance - a perfect way to describe covering the White House. To many journalists, being assigned to the White House Press Corps is the culmination of years of work. Without a doubt, barriers exist in the White House. Everything that is told to the press is carefully crafted to sound as positive as possible. Since administration after administration has perfected the artform of trying to mislead the press, today's press corps are there to sift through the information they are given for that little nugget of gold. Unfortunately and unfairly, today's press have to try to break down the barriers, without any help.