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Originally Posted by photon
And who gets to decide who is a journalist and who isn't? I don't care if it's Trump or Clinton or Obama, the government doesn't get to decide which news organizations are press and get access to government and who aren't.
If the public doesn't trust the media, that's the media's job to fix, not government's job to create a Russian style approved media. An independent media not controlled by government is pretty important.
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In the case of the White House briefing room, it's always been the case that they decide who gets in and who doesn't and where they sit as there is a limit on space.
Beyond that however, I have no idea how it's been decided in the past.