Yes and it was Editor and Publisher who quoted him.
"Since his resignation, questions about who should gain access to White House press events have grown, prompting a special meeting for later today between the leadership of the White House Correspondents' Association and Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan."
Who should gain access? How elitist of them.
Should a partisan independent journalist have White House access?
Somebody like Helen Thomas for example?
The way to quickly shut them up is to offer them what they are asking for - in spades. Imagine the uproar if consumer protection laws were passed that required "real" journalists to obtain a "licensed professional journalist" certification before they could either call themselves journalists or perform the actions of a journalist or receive compensation for practicing the trade of journalism.
Of course there would have to be license qualification and renewal requirements that would be put in place, yearly license fees to be assessed, and journalistic malpractice standards that would need to enforced, maybe even windfall profits taxes for those Woodward and Bernstein types who manage to cash in on their fame. After all, there is a fake journalist crisis going on, and the public must be protected so that they know that they're getting the real thing. Just imagine how fast they would backpedal...
This is a very, very common MSM formulation. "Questions have grown." Yeah, right. The only people asking "growing" questions are the White House press corps, which has it's collective panties in a bunch that some rank outsider with a bias TOWARD the President actually got into their "august" presence.
Informal WH press briefings are called "gaggles." Well, the WH press corps -- and the MSM in general -- are a gaggle of SNOBS who don't want anyone they see as an interloper intruding on their turf. That's just the facts. Pure and simple.