If Trump is allowing something to happen, there's a reason. I can only speculate, but two things come to mind.
They won't pass up a WH briefing, and if Trump excluded some of them, they'd have an excuse not to show it.
The press is being excoriated by most people who are seeing the briefings. They are revealing themselves. That Chinese plant yesterday, the cute girl that had been fed the lines, got exposed. She was classic Chinese playbook. Get a petite, cute girl that isn't vaguely threatening to spout the propaganda. Trump called on her, then said, "that sounds more like a statement than a question, who are you with?" Trump already knew. He got her fumbling around, claiming Phoenix News was independent. Everyone found out who she was. Everyone knew who invited her.
Right from the Big Pharma playbook.
You make some good points. I always say, when the enemy is digging themselves into a hole, you don’t want to take away their shovels.
A buddy who lives in the UK has admitted he hasn’t ever followed US politics at all but after watching Trump’s pressers (which he calls “talking shite” ;-)) and then watching CNN, he was just amazed by how dishonest and biased they are. He described them as “just awful” after hearing the President himself and then hearing what CNN twisted it. The Chinese girl is another good example that exposes the corruption of the WHCA and it’s little games.