Having a spot in the white house press pool is legally a privilege, not a right. The AP can still operate and write whatever they like, they’re just not invited to exclusive press briefings.
This is a long-standing conflict of interest that incentivizes the press to field softball questions and avoid writing critical stories in hopes of getting priority treatment from the government, but typically it works in a more subtle way.
I mean, I guess you could look at it that way, to an extent. But the larger effect is that it reinforces the threat against every other major news outlet, in a very blunt and overt way.
I don’t expect the AP to suddenly radicalize over it or anything.
What?
I mean, how can a president choose what questions or choose only favorable news outlets? I understand that in America it’s red against blue with the news, but this just doesn’t make sense to me. Neither does the fact that he can choose like this. It’s very strange to begin with.
Wasn’t freedom of speech a huge deal with these guys?.. Now its controlled speech?.. How is this legal? How is this real?
The right likes to appropriate populist ideas to push through unpopular ones…
Surprise, it was freeze peaches the whole time just like every leftist ever scrawled about it.
Having a spot in the white house press pool is legally a privilege, not a right. The AP can still operate and write whatever they like, they’re just not invited to exclusive press briefings.
This is a long-standing conflict of interest that incentivizes the press to field softball questions and avoid writing critical stories in hopes of getting priority treatment from the government, but typically it works in a more subtle way.
So this unshackles the AP from bias in their reporting?
I mean, I guess you could look at it that way, to an extent. But the larger effect is that it reinforces the threat against every other major news outlet, in a very blunt and overt way.
I don’t expect the AP to suddenly radicalize over it or anything.
Nobody is stopping AP from reporting the news. What they did was completely legal. Not sure why WHCA thinks they have monopoly power. They don’t.
What? I mean, how can a president choose what questions or choose only favorable news outlets? I understand that in America it’s red against blue with the news, but this just doesn’t make sense to me. Neither does the fact that he can choose like this. It’s very strange to begin with.
Have you been looking at the press pool list? How can you argue those are all favorable news outlets?
No I haven’t. I read the article. But it’s possible I misunderstood it.
You didn’t misunderstand anything. They’re just yankin your chain