nwtk2007 wrote:
Heck, CNN is now saying that Trump is preventing them, CNN, from covering the president. Talk about stupid. When "journalism" gets this stupid, as in stupid like CNN, you can bet we are on theh way down a bad road.
CNN First Amendment rights are not being violated at all.. CNN can send others and still they scream Trump is being unfair... Trump is set to take Acosta’s pass away again when the restraining order expires this coming week...
The news media is up in arms over rules the White House is going enforce.. They should all be screaming at their buddy, Acosta...
The Supreme Court in 1972 ruled that journalist have no more rights than the average citizen ..
Attending the White House is by invitation, it is not some constitutional right...
An interesting time line of radio and news conference meeting with the Presidents through the years~~..
An example~~1945
President Harry Truman proposed a major West Wing expansion that would add a studio and auditorium for press briefings. The plans lacked Congressional support and were not carried out. Truman moved the meeting place for press conferences from the Oval Office to the Indian Treaty Room in the State Department, (today’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building). Truman’s press conferences were reduced to once a week and became more scripted, usually including a formal p**********l statement to outline positions or issues.
1955
After January 19, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Press Secretary James C. Hagerty permitted radio, television, and newspaper equipment to record coverage of news conferences. The conferences were held about every two weeks and before the film was released to the public Hagerty edited what were considered the most newsworthy portions.
1961
On January 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy became the first president to hold a live televised news conference, showing his comfort with members of the media. Briefing books, practice sessions, and increasing amounts of staff time were needed to prepare for conferences that were now major news events as more than half the nation’s households had television sets...
Plenty more should you wish to read it..
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/the-white-house-and-the-press-timeline