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Long overdue.
I know he lasted about 24 hours but I quite liked Anthony Scaramucci.
Well said, but the liberal reaction would be that the White House is stifling freedom of speech.
Of course that’s nonsense. These commentators on TV will still yakk and spew out their reports. They just wouldn’t be able to say they were in the White House.
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After that White House correspondents dinner, it’s hard to speak of the White House reporters with any semblance of respect for their professional credentials.
Give their credentials to someone out in flyover country. Or rotate the credential.
Credentials are for reporters, if they report they can stay, when they stray into editorial opinion - they are out.
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Develop a standard of behavior, with progressive discipline, send to the respective media outlets...
Issue warnings and start pulling credentials
Whose press credentials were used to let the young boy in last week to ask a question? Or has CNN adopted a new age group for its few followers?
Absolutely.
This is EASY....
Just assign credentials and seats based on the number of viewers/ readers....
Which means the Fox affiliate in Bismarck, ND gets the seats held by CNN.
In the Constitutional sense, “the press” is a technological device for disseminating information. One cannot be a “member” of the press. One can only have access to a press.
Any device which enables one to state and publicize one’s views is a “press,” whether it be moveable type, offset, TV, radio, or the Internet. We all have freedom to access “the press,” meaning we have the right to acquire such devices or pay any provider who wishes to sell us access to publicize our ideas.
In this regard, no CBS anchor has anymore claim to special treatment for being part of “the press” than does any blogger.
“Freedom of the press” applies equally to every citizen seeking to use a technological device to record and publicize his or her opinion.
The so-called "Press" has no more rights under the 1st Amendment than does any Freeper posting on in FreeRepublic.
And no "member" of the "Press" has any sort of right to special treatment by the White House, nor does the "Press" have any rights at all when it comes to being protected from harsh criticism by politicians -- just as politicians have no rights when it comes to being protected from harsh criticism from anybody who has access to a press (i.e. a device for facilitating publication).
I don’t want Sarah Huckabee Sanders to burn out.
She does the best job ever and we should make her job more pleasant to do.
Yes. Pull their press credentials, and if the rest of them don’t straighten up, cut the briefings to once a week, and then cut them completely if they continue as they are.
They have credentials?
I would like to see a press secretary that changes the whole environment. Require the press to submit questions in writing prior to the briefing. Allow citizens to do the same. Then consolidate the questions, reword to cover the broader set of questions. At the end of the briefing, read the question and then supply the answer. Record and make the briefing available via the web site.
“Earick Ward is 100% right. “
Absolutely.