In banishing reporters, Kan. Senate joins destructive trend
By CLAY WIRESTONE
Kansas Reflector
Kansas Senate leadership’s decision to bar reporters from the floor during debate should trouble everyone who values
a free and fair press in the Sunflower State. Unfortunately, the ramifications spread further and should trouble
concerned citizens across the country.
To put it bluntly, this move appears to be part of a multistate effort on behalf of Republican powerbrokers to target the
news media. In Iowa, for example, the state senate has done the same thing as Kansas — evicting reporters from the
floor, where they had co-existed more or less peacefully with legislators for more than 140 years.
The Republican National Committee has gotten into the act too, according to The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.
The GOP has complained for years that its presidential candidates are treated unfairly in debates. By that, of course,
they mean asked tough questions by impartial moderators in front of a national audience.
Thus, the RNC “is preparing to change its rules to require presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination to
sign a pledge to not participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates.”
These attacks make sense as the once proud Republican Party remakes itself in the shape of former President
Donald Trump. Remember, it was Trump who called our nation’s free press — one of its proudest accomplishments —
“the enemy of the American people.”
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This trend should concern every voter as Rs want to keep secret what they're talking about.
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The moment freedom of the press is gone, freedom itself will have gone extinct.
