Tobin argued the White House has hurt the AP’s business with its new policy; for years, #AP #journalists had been virtually always included in these pool events.
But in its brief supporting its own position, the #Trump admin said that “to the extent that the AP built a business model that depended on the assumption that it would maintain this favored-nation status in perpetuity, that is hardly the government’s fault.”
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate