I'm not saying I don't understand this, at least a little bit.
I'm just saying if the White House goes through with it, it will make press briefings a whole lot more boring:
Escalating its feud with an assertive reporter, the White House on Tuesday issued a formal warning to Simon Ateba that he is at risk of losing his entry pass if he continues to disrupt daily press briefings.
The warning — a first for President Biden's press office — followed run-ins between press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the journalist from Cameroon who has interrupted her briefings to demand that he be recognized to ask a question.
I mean, look, it's true, the guy often goes off-script and disrupts press proceedings pretty heavily. Here's just one incident in March:
I won't say I don't enjoy it. I'm just saying I get where the White House is coming from.
The Biden administration acknowledged that while "members of the press often raise their voices or shout questions at press briefings or events," continued interruptions "prevent journalists from asking questions or administration officials and guests from responding."
Oh, you mean like CNN's Jim Acosta did to Trump on multiple occasions?
Trump got called a Nazi for banning members of the free press.
And then CNN won a federal lawsuit requiring Acosta to be reinstated:
In an apparent response to the controversy, Ateba released a very long, very rambling Twitter statement in which he referred to "coordinated vicious attacks" and gave a brief history lesson involving Julius Caesar and 19th-century British colonial rule:
