Given the unprecidented level of security in Washington since 9/11, it is troubling that a non-journalist using a false name and working for a sham news organization could have gained regular access to the White House for such an extended period of time.
Who are they suggesting should verify whether someone is a bonafide journalist? Perhaps the administration should set up some standardized tests that anyone wanting to be certified as a journalist must pass. The Freedom of the Press was established so that anyone who wanted to publish their perspective would be free to do so. There was never anything in the law that discriminated between one 'journalist' and another.
And they are pitching a hissie fit over the fact that Gannon somehow had ties to the Republican Party.
We have also learned that the questions he posed at White House press briefings ... < snip > ... and the stories he filed for Talon News frequently mirrored Republican Part talking points, that the Talon News agency is a news organization in name only and that it has apparently close connections to the Republican Party.
How is this different from Stephanopolis, Carville, and the plethora of Clintonites appearing nightly as 'journalists' on national news?
