No, just take it at it’s word. When the Amendment was adopted “the press” were those who acted as the press, not those who had credentials that didn’t even exist. The right is not for a profession with certain educations but for anyone that acts as the press. Including bloggers.
If you are trying to reach a wider audience than you could speak to personally through some form of puplication then you are the press.
At the end of the day people aren’t stupid. A left leaning person can turn on Fox hear the bias, just as a right wing person can flip on CNN and MSNBC and hear it.
Some commentators hide it better than others, but over the years it feels more like Westeros than America. As a conservative I don’t even post a link from Fox in the last few years as the left will denounce it as biased and they are right. It’s all biased.
Actually, the professionals have no specific claim to be the press that they can exclude others. The right isn’t about gifting power to a profession working for media companies but recognizing the rights of individuals who do certain activities.
They have their rights not because they work for news agencies but because they are Persons. The news agencies are free riders on their backs. So, yes, there’d be nothing wrong with only admitting individuals representing just themselves to attend a press conference. It would go a long way towards taking the entities down a peg or three.
The ability to broadcast your views and news has been liberated from when it was relatively difficult and costly to do so (though broadsheets etc were never that costly to produce, it was difficult to post them far and wide). The old press of corporate entities as “the press” didn’t exist when the country was founded, what did was small printing shops owned and operated by people (dubious to claim many were even LLCs). Screw the entities, they were essentially an accident of history (unlike the Robber Barons the Left chides against, the banker Morgan and those banana guys aside, the big press even caused wars just as it’s now a vehicle by which the crap ideologies of the ever more far Left are sustained). Long live the press of those who take it upon themselves to be the press.
Better some guy in his basement than a boardroom of I’ve league gits.
You seem to act like that is really new in its substance.
Some guy in the 1960s pumping out zines with a mimeograph machine in his garage was “the press”. Before then there were cheapy cheapy offset presses. Those big rooms full of million dollar machines to print hundreds of thousands of papers were a footnote between the unstructured press that existed before them, had always existed beside them, and will endure long after them.
There’s bias and then there’s creating an alternate reality about The Mueller Crime Family to run cover for your man. I agree that there’s bias everywhere but it’s not equal imo.
Maxine Watters tells her Democrat voters to Harrass people just because they’re Trump supporters. Basically, the Democrats want freedom of speech ripped from any Trump supporter at all.
Republican politicians then get harassed constantly. Republican media can’t even eat in Restaurants because protestors harass them.
Threats against people like Tucker Carlson happen, and people show up outside of his house.
What Republican got shot by a hating Democrat again?
Several people go to the Emergency room for simply having a Trump bumper sticker. So at a stop light, people get out, and beat the crap out of someone within an inch of their life, just because of their political beliefs.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuup, ya might not wanna compare the Republican vs. the Democrats when it comes to harassment, and pushing Anarchy. Just saying. lol.