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The First Amendment does not come with a White House hard pass. CNN cheered when platforms shut a president out of the public square. Now the same network wants a lecture about press freedom because the briefing room is no longer a birthright. That is not principle. That is a status tantrum.Access is a privilege the government can condition. Speech is the right to publish without a jailer. Those are different things. A network that treated deplatforming as a public service does not get to cry censorship the minute the rope line moves. Viewers already voted with the remote.Cover the news from the sidewalk if you have to. Into Texas The country will survive fewer cameras in the room. What it will not survive is a press that only discovers the Constitution when the invite list changes. Tell the truth. Earn the seat. Stop pretending a credential is a commandment.