https://www.politicscentral.org/obama-limiting-press-access-in-ways-past-presidents-wouldnt-have-dared/
“At the same time,” Benac wrote, “it is limiting press
access in ways that past administrations wouldn’t have dared, and the president
is answering to the public in more controlled settings than his predecessors.
It’s raising new questions about what’s lost when the White House tries to make
an end run around the media, functioning, in effect, as its own news agency.”