White House bans CNN reporter from press conference

[Benton]

(07-27-2018, 12:39 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Valid points, but I don't see how banning 1 reporter from a news conference strains the freedom of the press. Now, constantly deriding most news agencies as "fake news" and calling them the enemy, tha'ts a different story, but banning 1 reporter from a news conference, I just don't see it.

Sure it is.

It's freedom of the press... not freedom of most of the press. Apply the same logic across the rest of the first.

We don't prohibit the practicing of religion... except Methodists. It's just one branch and they're basically Catholics anyway.
We don't prohibit the right to peacefully assemble... except short people. Dwarfs are creepy.
We don't abridge free speech... except people with lisps. Makes us laugh too much.