WashPost Trump - access journalism dead

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White House press briefings are “access journalism,” in which official statements — achieved by closeness to the source — are taken at face value and breathlessly reported as news. And that is over. Dead.

Spicer’s statement should be seen for what it is: Remarks made over the casket at the funeral of access journalism.

As Jessica Huseman of ProPublica put it: “Journalists aren’t going to get answers from Spicer. We are going to get answers by digging. By getting our hands dirty. So let’s all do that.”



We can only hope this is so. Though it begs the question, how the hell did it go on for so long in the first place?

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)