"So the reporters in the MSM want the White House to investigate the backgrounds of each and every one of them? Their position is the White House should dig into their pasts, their personal lives, before allowing them to participate in the press corps?"
Excellent point. If the WH did that, they would be screaming, that their First Amendment rights are being violated, that the WH is only allowing those, whose personal lives they approve of.
The point has been made before, if you post something on the internet, it ain't private. Gannon made his personal life public. As an aside, I wonder how he filled out his tax returns?