I'm a reporter for my own blog. If I went to a shareholders meeting at CNN and refused to yield my microphone so others could speak, they'd boot me out.
That would not be them restricting my 1st amendment rights, that would be them maintaining order.
Also, when has CNN or others with a "Hard Pass" to access the White House ever stood up for little journalists like me to also have access?
Why is there such a thing as a "Hard Pass" in the first place, if not because it restricts the "freedom of press" to those who are of big organizations that already agreed to follow certain rules?
Trump sucks. But he gets to take questions from other reporters without one - Acosta - insisting on holding the microphone for as long as he likes. That is against the rules, his rudeness and/or contact with a random female intern debatable or not.
And no, this is hardly about the freedom of asking questions "aggressively". And really, when has CNN been about that? Did they "aggressively" grill Obama on when Gitmo would be closed or him drone bombing more kids than Bush did? Do they even now grill Elizabeth Warren on when she's going to call for the enforcement of the Emoluments Clause?
No, this is just CNN giving the Right all the ammo they need to convince their followers that the mainstream press is biased.
