[cyncooper]

After a 30-minute sit-down with McClellan, WHCA President Ron Hutcheson said he believed the current system was fine and hesitated to have the correspondents' association play a bigger role in distributing press passes. "I'm not sure we need to do anything," Hutcheson told E&P. "I'm not comfortable in passing judgment on who is a journalist and who isn't. My overriding view is that if I am going to make a mistake, it is going to be on letting people in rather than keeping people out."

Just as we commonsense types stated from the start. They did not want to start playing that game.

The meeting followed the recent uproar over James Guckert, a former White House reporter for Talon News, who had used the name Jeff Gannon and drawn criticism for asking partisan questions. He resigned from his job last week after questions arose about why he had gained press access with a fake name and while representing a news agency with ties to the Republican Party.

If E&P has evidence that Talon News has ties to the "Republcian Party", they ought to present it.

[Howlin]

Those included tighter restrictions on who can receive daily press passes,

Oh, I bet they'd love that!

First of all, what is the White House Correspondants Assocation? Why do they need to be "organized?" Why do they even have a SAY in what goes on in the White House press room.

And here is the list:

List of White House Correspondents