Tim May wrote:
(I have no problems with private agents, e.g., Microsoft or whatever, limiting contacts to the "main" reporters. It's their property. If they grant interviews to Declan, Brock, John, Steve, etc., and not to me, I cannot claim my "rights" were violated. Government functions are another matter, and I would generally favor letting anyone claiming to be a reporter in to government press conferences...to do anything else is to give licensing and credentials to speech, which the government should have no right to do. If they need to hold press conferences in RFK Stadium, so be it.)
Are you proposing the President can't choose who he meets? Whether such a meeting is called a "press conference" is irrelevant. The legitimization of reporters through the use of "press credentials" by the government can only occur when people operating the news channels and their customers allow it to happen. Panther Modern