By Thomas Lifson January 16, 2017
The mainstream media declared war on the candidacy of Donald Trump, with the New York Times leading the way in a front-page opinion column arguing that “you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century” and discard notions of “balance.” Now the entitled media elites are discovering that there is a price to losing a war, as the Trump administration is considering the White House briefing room out of its current quarters, where only 52 members of the White House Correspondents Association can be accommodated.
The imperious media stars are not amused........Maintaining an oligopoly can’t be good for news consumers. Free the White House Press Corps from the domination of old outlets. Will the elites deny access to their club to the new flood of “bloggers and talk radio” folks? If they do, they will lose the P.R. battle. And if they don’t, expect the flood of new members to change the nature of the WHCA away from an insiders’ cabal that sponsors the repulsive White Correspondence Association Dinner, aka the “nerd prom.”..........Read more
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