“... reporters have bosses, and bosses are demanding unimpeded access to the decision makers. “
Well, so what? The bosses and the press may opine to their hearts’ content, but there is NO Constitutional writ for them to have a seat at the table of officials; especially when they, for the most part, use that access to slant, take out of context and outright falsify coverage. Press briefing are indeed a very new thing in this Republic; and notably the press has been GROSSLY incurious about the last eight years of scandals and outright criminality in the Executive branch.
“... standing up in meaningful ways against the current, dangerous descent into authoritarianism. “
Do you mean like standing up against IRS targeting and NSA targeting and Obama administration unmasking of political foes ?
Will Bunch, a total leftist hack jerk.
Don’t you know that the x94 administration didn’t have any scandals? </s>