The First Amendment does NOT confer any special status to a subset of citizens designated as "the press". "Freedom of the press" is just the printing-press version of "Freedom of Speech" and applies equally to all citizens. We all have the same right to publish and speak.
While this article does not say otherwise, I think they ought to have made this distinction clear. I am sick of progressives and even some non progressives imagining that there is some special class called "the press" that is owed some kind of special deference. For example CNN thinking it has a constitutional right to attend press conferences.
The First Amendment does NOT confer any special status to a subset of citizens designated as "the press". "Freedom of the press" is just the printing-press version of "Freedom of Speech" and applies equally to all citizens. We all have the same right to publish and speak.Thank you. I quit reading after the first sentence of this article when that false claim was made.
Just disappointed that it took 34 posts for a FReeper to point out this simple fact.