Posted on 03/28/2025 3:29:43 AM PDT by george76
Press access is not freedom, it's privilege.
For the umpteenth time, AP executive editor Julie Pace claims that it’s fighting for the freedom of speech of all Americans by demanding exclusive cartel access to the White House.
If Pace were at all literate, she would at least be arguing about Freedom of the Press, but neither one applies.
Now if Trump had dispatched the FBI to take smash up the presses or ban the AP from operating for refusing to use the term Gulf of America, that would be a textbook First Amendment violation.
But that’s not happening. Instead the AP isn’t getting the access it wants. And access is not a right or a freedom, it’s a privilege. One that operates on the premise that media access should be limited to select elite groups. Press access is not freedom, it’s privilege.
It did however happen to conservative journalists when the government came after them, directly or indirectly through Facebook or Twitter, for their views. Julie had no problem with that because they weren’t in the club. And the club is the actual enemy of Freedom of the Press.
“The ability to comment on politics and consume news created without interference and intimidation by the government is central to American democracy. So central, in fact, that it is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution,” Pace argues in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
It is central. It does not pertain to getting access to government events, but being able to comment and write about politics without being censored by Facebook at a command from the White House.
Tellingly, Julie Pace uses the word “consume”. To her, free speech is a passive act. The act of consuming or listening to whatever lies she tells while commanding an unearned power.
That’s not how the First Amendment was ever meant to work.
Yeah, and they call access to health insurance, access to “healthcare”; and they call freedom of religion “freedom of worship”.
Not a mistake, not confusion.
They have no more “right” into the White House than to walk into my living room and start recording.
When you think about, the press not understanding the difference between freedom of speech and press access makes sense. They don’t have a clue what journalism is either.
I guess then that that you and yours consider your past and on going news filter applied to such things as the Vax, Election theft (The STEAL) and social media account shut downs (including DJT) to be free press and not freedom of speech related then?
So transparent.
Suck it up, you are lucky that we don’t jan6 your arses.
How many times were we told freedom of speech is not freedom of teach when they wanted to censor us?
Now we are told freedom of press is freedom of access.
why can’t they get their information to write their articles the same way the rest of us have to...from the articles written by those who WERE there? they can still twist the truth.
The people complaining think that Freedom of the Press means Choose Sides and LIE
I would be fine with the press secretary taking questions from email, and presenting responses on X for all the world to see. And continuing to post news on the white house website.
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I would never allow someone to visit my house who told lies about me.
That is why the mainstream media should be banned from the White House.
“If Pace were at all literate, she would at least be arguing about Freedom of the Press [instead of Speech], but neither one applies.”
The above misinterprets Pace’s desire. In her ordering of things, “Reporters” are not at events to “report” what principals say; they are there to create/shape political narratives via their “speech” — what they ask and interject. She wants her reporters to be players.
Good point.
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