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The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights was a direct response to British censorship and suppression of free speech. The Framers did not anticipate modern media or press conferences which did not exist. The image of reporters crowding around a politician and shouting questions would be a matter for later days. What the First Amendment was concerned with was preventing the government from shutting down the press.
And yet during the first term of the Trump administration, there were court cases arguing that reporters, even those who were disruptive and violent, could not have their press passes suspended. Playboy was somehow entitled to attend press conferences. (The Biden administration changed its mind on this and many other things when it had to cope with a screwy African reporter disrupting press conferences.)
Now the Trump administration is testing this with the AP. Its contention that there’s no constitutional right to media access is indisputably true, but we live in a bonkers legal environment where a judge ruled that blocking critics on Twitter is a First Amendment violation.
Historically, reporters used to hang out in a White House walkaway to buttonhole public figures. The current briefing room used to be the White House pool. What’s being treated as sacrosanct was always impromptu.
The Left dismantled the most meaningful parts of the First Amendment, allowing the government to tell private companies to censor opposing media outlets, sidelining the entire purpose of Freedom of the Press, while insisting that their favored media outlets have some constitutional right to be at press conferences.
If the right of media access is an actual right then does every media outlet have an equal right to be at private interviews? If Trump talks to Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, does the AP also have a constitutional right to be there?
The Founding Fathers were concerned with negative rights, preventing government from taking away things from us, whereas modern leftists are obsessed with creating entitlements while taking away our rights.
The Constitution protected us from government censorship, it wasn’t a media entitlement.
It was a dishonest and Scandal Mongering Journalists Al Stump who tried t o ruin the famous Baseball Player Ty Cobb with a load of Lies that’s why he wasn’t featured in the movie FIELD of DREAMS the fact that Stump printed Total Lies and lost a job because of his Lies and was threatened with Lawsuit over his Fake News and so we see t today their still Broadcasting and printing Lies in the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders
Thanks Spurwing, the gutter press strikes again.
Daniel:
As a journalist I’m sure you’re aware that for the most part, the average person has never actually read the US Constitution. I have asked dozens of people that question over many years and much to my dismay, the answer has always been no. How can someone talk about their Constitutional rights if they’ve never read the thing?
More often than not, the average person naively relies on the MSM to tell them what the US Constitution says which equates to allowing the MSM to interpret the Constitution for them. In my opinion, that’s dangerous because most of the MSM have never actually read the US Constitution either.
Mentioning the US Constitution as if the mere utterance implies authoritative knowledge and having actually read the US Constitution are two different things. The former is no substitute for the latter.
If AP has the right to be there then wouldn’t we all?
Yes, I want Little Jimmy Acosta’s old spot. I heard Air Force One has an open bar.
The press has the right to publish what they want. But they don’t have the right to be seen or heard if we don’t want to listen to them. Turning off the TV news is hardly a free speech violation. And if I choose not to invite the press to my party because I don’t like them, I’m exercising my right of free association. End of argument.
Yes, the Agitprop Press is free to write whatever it wants – outside of the White House and Air Force One.
An “apparent” truth: the press (aka, the MSM) thinks that their free speech right is paramount to everyone else’s right to free speech.
In school yard parlance, “I’m better and more important than you so I get to move to the front of the line.”
The Agitprop Press (AP) is the worst “wire service” there is. It’s even worse than Reuters, which is barely distinguishable from Al Jihad (Al Jazeera.) Both wires use stringers from Al Jihad as if they were real reporters. The AP is the worst of the bunch, though, because it’s the most skilled of the propaganda distributors for the Minitrue Media out there. It’s better than the others at pretending to be objective and factual while peddling its biased bullshit. It’s anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Jew, anti-MAGA Americans and rabidly anti-Trump. It’s pro-islam, pro-Hamas and “woke,” “woke'” “woke.” Its subterfuge is more subtle than the other wires out there, so it’s more dangerous. That isn’t saying much because it’s dedicated deceit is obvious but it’s less obvious than in the other wires.
None of its stories can be trusted because they’re just that, Stories. They aren’t accounts or news, they’re fables, yarns, tales and fantasies and no matter where you may encounter them, you can be sure they’re packed with deception and outright lies.
President Trump should’ve had the AP thought police ejected from the White House press room with boots to their asses and from Air Force One over an ocean but at least they’re gone……….for now. Little Jimmy Acosta got the boot for a short while too, but was allowed back before CNN finally fired him.