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No, I'm claiming that multiple informal *sources* of explicit legal rules are (decorum, civility, notions of PC) are basically equivalent modulo power.
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Sure, my point here was inspired by Trump's WH saying it's going to put out new rules for press briefings since their informal idea of "decorum" was violated by inconveniently hostile reporters like Acosta. Hypocrisy is that Trump routinely behaves 10x worse in decorous settings
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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.