Romenesko

The Politico
Helen Thomas' front-row seat will be given to a cable news channel, which Mike Allen notes is "a sign of Washington's changing pecking order, and of the new ways that Americans get their news." Thomas, 86, tells him: "I didn’'t think I had a monopoly on that seat. Since my peers have decided that I don't belong there, I'll bow to their -- I'll drink the -- what did Socrates drink?" Hemlock? "I'll drink it. You have to submit to the will of the people, and apparently this is the will of my peers."