>"They fear ramifications yet unknown."

No they fear losing access to the briefings entirely. Read my previous link. The ramifications are pretty well known.

This white house would like nothing more than to ban the media and do away with the daily briefings altogether. First they banned cameras, then they banned audio. It's important for the press to be there period now.

A cowboy stunt would solve nothing, in fact it would give the administration the justification they need for dispensing with White House press corp completely.

People lose sight of any perspective until it's late enough to do anything then it's just history. When it all blows up they just look like clowns but they enjoy being puppet clowns anyhow, keeps their tummies round. People still wonder how dystopian scenarios ever do set in? Making a stand in society seems like a thing of the past.