Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part of a thing can be used to represent the whole of the thing. “Nice wheels”, one might say about another's car, or “lend me your ears” when requesting a listening audience, or “the response from the White House”, when referring to the political actions of the U.S government. 

 

The White House is broadcast globally as a backdrop for journalists reporting on U.S affairs, transformed notably as they align themselves centrally, and therefore symmetrically, in relation to its neoclassical facade. 

 

The design of the building and its surroundings inform how views are created. Symmetrical axis, a historical representation of classical order, now relates to how the White House is broadcast. Furthermore, this tele-formalisation of architectural symmetry results in a globally understood vantage point conveying U.S synecdochic symbolism. 

 

Due to international desire for U.S reporting, agencies must compete to be set up in more advantageous spots. Those who are committed to broadcasting U.S affairs, are those whose viewers are committed to following U.S affairs, and are those that generally occupy the vantage points closest to the White House’s central axis of symmetry. 

 

This volume explores and proposes a correlation between the deviation of an international reporter's broadcasting position from the white house's central axis of symmetry, and the fiscal bounding of their home nation with the U.S in relation to the U.S action being reported. Classical architectural order is transformed into a media of contemporary political culture.