It has been a rare day of nonstop media critique from me here on the Corner — what can I say, folks, it’s unexpectedly open season this week, and NR gave me a hunting license — and I wanted to end on perhaps the most meaningless postscript of them all. The White House Correspondents’ Association is up in arms about the Trump administration’s decision to yank the association’s privilege of credentialing White House press pool reporters. And in its high dudgeon, the association is telling on itself.
On a practical level, what this move means is that Trump’s staff now have the ability to govern press access to the president as well as anything else related to the White House, from press-conference seating arrangements to which outlets are even allowed to attend them in the first place. (Sorry, Associated Press, looks like it’s “Gulf of America” for you, or you can cover the president from a laptop screen like the rest of us pixel-stained wretches.)
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