One lesson we learned repeatedly from watching accredited journalists with Trump is that they won't even stick up for one of their own if doing so would mean losing access. You could drag a reporter of choice out of the White House briefing room and the others would stay
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Although that is Belarus, where doing journalism “without permission” could lead to much worse than just being deported and refused entry for 10 years. Your general point is correct, but the specific case is not like the US.
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Well, the press card used to be important. Today - not as much. It used to be a guarantee, you are vetted, qualified, on assignment. Today people are bloggers, Youtubers, influencers, and so on. How to define ’journalist’? Anyone that writes and reports? Anyone with an opinion?
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Yeah, the expansion of citizen journalism is an unqualified good.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Governments within the obvious bounds of reason shouldn’t be able to decide who, in the public’s stead, get to see what they’re doing and hear what they’re saying.
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