In a democracy, the press and the presidency have long existed in uneasy but necessary tension — each checking the other's power. This week, that tension hardened into something more concrete, as the Trump administration denied White House access to journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, citing editorial displeasure rather than security. The act moves the long-running conflict between this administration and mainstream media from the realm of rhetoric into the realm of restriction, raising questions that reach well beyond any single news cycle about who controls the flow of information fr