Karoline Leavitt—President Trump’s Press Secretary—announced last week that The White House would now be determining which reporters make up the “press pool” covering the president.
 
Eugene Daniels, the current president of the White House Correspondents Association said the move, “suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” 
 
Daniels’ assertions are absurd—they have no basis in the Constitution or the First or 14th amendments. 
 
So why the outrage? It is the expected reaction of a guild losing its right to license its membership.
 
The audience for legacy media is collapsing, and its guild members shudder whenever another block in its wall of privilege protecting the remnants of its influence falls. 
 
The country doesn’t notice and doesn’t mind what happens to the WHCA. 

They want to hear from the president, not from the filters on the president. 
 
Press on with fairness as your guide, President Trump. Press on with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and White House Communications Director Steven Cheung. Avoid the Constitution’s third rails and all will be well. 
 
Mix it up. 
 
Bravo!

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