You can claim now that you are "protecting the sensitivies of the weak" but no faction stays in power forever and corruption, frailty, and opportunism are constant features of societies and those who govern them. Giving tools like this to the government is begging for it.
The point is, norm was *not* strong enough for Trump so he was imposing a stronger norm, and when reporters refused to abide by it, he tried and failed to deny his privileges on a whim, and is now formally strengthening the norms that were enough for a POTUS who held up his end
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that is not how I interpret the situation. Trump was out of line in revoking Acosta's press pass and a judge has actually settled the issue appropriately. Acosta's behavior was out of line too and shouting over other reporters should have cost him credibility from his peers.
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I don't think he was out of line so much as tracking the shifting line. He was escalating in response to Trump being out of line in the extent of his evasion, specific targeting of CNN etc. He was tracking a shifting norm as in "okay, so we're playing hardball now are we?"
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