Slowman wrote:
still, your country won the battle with this ruling. if you're on the anti-CNN side, then you're on the wrong side of history, and
every news organization agrees with this. even fox.
Justifying a public institution be forced to give the Time Warner corporation access because other corporate oligarchies like NewsCorp, NBCUniversal, Viacom, Carlos Slim, etc. support this isn't much of an argument. Stop trying to hide global corporations behind the antiquated veneer of Thou Most Sainted Journalist Profession. The only honest thing they report is the temperature.
Every president has the first amendment right to address audiences of his choice. This ruling is based on some weird technicality and is easily circumvented any number of ways, including:
- Some panel that fits the technical definition of due process (Acosta deserved to lose his pass for his actions; note that CNN was not denied access).
- Requiring questions be submitted in writing and then read by an intern (perfect for getting questions answered and depriving narcissistic clowns like Acosta from using the conferences to advance personal celebrity and bigger book deal advances.
- Increasing the attendance x10 and filling that extra 90% with actual US citizens instead of just shills of anti-American globalist corporations.
- Private audiences with selected members of the media.
Slowman wrote:
a far closer call, much more interesting, is mueller's coming indictment of assange. i'd love to see that creep indicted. still, this is pretty much what caused obama so much grief. at what point is it news and at what point treason?
I don't think you should throw that term around since you clearly don't understand what it means. Assange is an Australian; only citizens can be charged by the US Gov with treason.