Should the White House press corps be worried?

Donald Trump has already disrupted both major political parties, the media and conventional wisdom, and now, members of the Washington press corps may have reason to expect that their lives will change once Trump takes office in January.

For years, the White House Correspondents' Association, a pro-government transparency and access group, mostly made up of national mainstream journalists, has been tasked with assigning who gets to sit where in the White House briefing room.

The big TV networks (CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox and CNN) are given the prime front row and the national newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal) are seated just behind.

But as former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who served in the Bush (43) administration, pointed out in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, there's no guarantee that's how a Trump administration will do things, which could mean major changes starting next year.

"The White House press secretary used to decide who got what seats, but this authority was given to the White House Correspondents Association in the middle of the George W. Bush administration," he wrote. "Nothing prohibits the incoming administration from taking it back. The valuable West Wing real estate occupied by the White House press corps isn't the property of the press. It belongs to the U.S. government."