These 2 media figures spark a press freedom debate in Washington state Legislature

These 2 media figures spark a press freedom debate in Washington state Legislature

When the Trump administration announced in February that it would handpick the reporters who get access to the White House — stripping that power from the century-old White House Correspondents’ Association — the association of journalists condemned the move as tearing “the independence of a free press in the United States,” declaring that “in a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” Yet, just eight days later, …