Press Room P.A. (Janet's P.A. — room speakers & console)

Installed ceiling- and wall-mounted speaker cluster with a central feed and back-room console that serves both as the briefing room's public-address (P.A.) system for spoken announcements and as the room's sound system for ambient music. It presents as fixed, institutional fixtures whose output can be keyed for timing cues and call-to-order announcements (used by press officers like Carol/Janet) or fed music (upbeat jazz) that changes the room's atmosphere.

2 appearances

Purpose

Provide room-wide spoken announcements and logistical cues (calls to seat, timing and briefing-start announcements) so press staff can coordinate press-room activity and manage reporters' attention.

Significance

Functions as the institutional instrument that reasserts control over a fractious press pool: its call to order frames the official briefing, escalates stakes around podium struggles, and helps convert a chaotic moment into an orchestrated, consequential public event.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Levity to Lockdown: Josh Triggers Damage-Control Rollout

The press-room public-address system (Janet's P.A.) is used to call the briefing to order; its voice punctuates the scene and forces the hallway strategizing to collapse into formal press management.

Before: Idle but ready, mounted in the briefing room and under the control of a press aide.

After: Active: emitting Janet's call to take seats and signaling the start of the official briefing.

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S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Hallway Damage Control: Reassurance, Alliances, and the Spin Plan

The press-room public-address system transmits Janet's announcement calling reporters to their seats, converting hallway planning into imminent public performance and marking the moment where private strategy must become public messaging.

Before: Idle but connected to press-room operations, ready to be used to marshal the briefing audience.

After: Active—used by Janet to call the room to order and initiate the briefing sequence.

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