[Poison Pill]

We all do networking events in our professional lives. For a reporter to get invited to an event where the VP is present; would be a no brainer for her not to go.

Doesn't matter if it's a charity event for abandoned chipmunks. If the right people are there; you go.

It's the job of the press to be critical of the administration and keep an eye on what they do. The press is essentially a private regulator. It is a problem if a regulator interacts socially with the people they are supposed to regulate.

If you lived close to a nuclear reactor, would you want the regulator in charge of monitoring core safety going to cocktail parties and yukking it up with the guys who run the reactor?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“The press is essentially a private regulator. “

I don't see it that way; I don't trust them to regulate anything!!
I think that is giving them too much credit and power.