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Granting long interviews is fundamentally different from access to briefings.
by mejari 10y ago
Granting long interviews is fundamentally different from access to briefings.
- kylewest 10y agoagreed. being excluded from one is also different from being excluded from all. there's also 6+ other news organizations in there -- not all trump friendly. I just don't see how CNN being excluded equates to the end of freedom of the press. The reach of those included is far greater than those explicitly excluded.
- mejari 10y agoI don't think it's the end of freedom of the press, but it's a dangerous step towards it. The fact that other groups have more reach doesn't lessen the damage excluding a major news organization just because you don't like what they're reporting. If they're not reporting the truth that's one thing, but this isn't that.