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.
And I disagree, it IS about protecting the powerful. WH press briefings are stage managed to make it much easier for POTUS to get their message out while avoiding answering the hard questions. It just wasn't designed to handle a POTUS at war with the media.
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yes, they can be evasive and self-interested and they usually are. that still allows the public to see which questions the WH is uncomfortable with and that serves a function. if it's all just shouting matches we don't even get that much.
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