Fellow fans of the West Wing – or anyone who has seen any Hollywood representation of the White House’s situation room – will know what it’s supposed to be like. Dimly lit, packed with technology, huge screens dominating the walls, most of the participants in meetings wearing enough gold braid to sink a medium sized battle ship. And so on.
The real thing – courtesy of the White House’ Flickr stream (photographer one Pete Souzas) is distinctly disappointing.
The only technology I can see is the single coffee flask at the rear of the room. There are some blotters and a bunch of middle aged men (and one woman) reading paper documents. Paper documents! That’s it. Come on guys, where’s your sense of theatre?
