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A: No he does not. The White House can talk as much as it likes, but without the press to actually disseminate the words no one will hear them. If Newspapers,
by ars 6y ago
A: No he does not. The White House can talk as much as it likes, but without the press to actually disseminate the words no one will hear them.
If Newspapers, TV, and YouTube (etc) all refused to carry the words what other avenue does the President have? An emergency alert to mobile phones?
And B: That doesn't answer the question posed. The question is not about the President, it's about a political dissident in general.
- shadowgovt 6y agoThe First Amendment's Freedom of the Press protections align with this outcome. It is intentional that the President isn't able to force the President to cover him. The government isn't supposed to be able to force the press on what they must say any more than it may force them on what they cannot say; these two compulsions are two sides of the same coin. It's an extraordinary circumstance when it's not in the press's best interest to report on press conferences (i.e. it's generally newsworthy information being freely handed out), and this was an extraordinary presidency.