Piers Morgan on U.S. media: 'They've lost their balls'; NYT reporters gets lesson in 1st Amendment

Piers Morgan weighs in on today’s brouhaha with Sean Spicer and the press gaggle:

Exactly. What on earth is happening to US media? They've lost their balls. https://t.co/POyueAORHr

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 24, 2017

LOL.

Morgan was responding to this tweet from historian Kevin Kruse on how the reporters who broke the Watergate story weren’t in the White House Press Corps:

Just a reminder: Woodward and Bernstein never attended a White House briefing. They cracked Watergate from the Washington Post's City Desk.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 24, 2017

Maybe more members of the media need this reminder? Sopan Deb of the New York Times, for example, thought the invitation of the “regular ‘pool’ plus some cherry-picked outfits” came “as close to violating free press as it gets”:

https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/835214259818795008

Um, no. From the AP’s Nick Riccardi:

this is quite bad but not a violation of 1st amdt

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) February 24, 2017

And from The Federalist’s Sean Davis:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/835247717429489666

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Next we’ll hear that not getting called on in the press briefing is a violation of the 1st Amendment:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/835248663723134977

Maybe Spicer should just let in non-journalists at the next briefing and see what happens?

But fellow journalists, as much as we wish it were so, the Free Press Clause doesn't give us a newsgathering privilege over non-journalists

— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) February 24, 2017

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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 25, 2017