05-18-2015, 09:30 PM
(05-18-2015, 12:51 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The WHCA is an independent organization that was started, indeed, because of Wilson threatening to revoke access. The only thing that was "playing nice" that was required was not reporting things that were intended to be off the record, something that had been a thing for decades before, and continues to be a thing up to present day.
Wilson never got cozy with the press, though, and in fact stopped with the meetings with the press in 1915, after the sinking of the Lusitania. There were a couple meetings in his second term after that, but it never was a regular thing as Wilson did not like the press.
Yeah wilson just threatened to take away access. Made the press have less teeth... Which is the problem of today.
Wilson is just an awful president.... Who stomped all over this country . He is easily one of the worst presidents and it doesn't take long to connect the problems of today to his policies. Not to mention the amount of lives lost to his foolish actions worldwide.
