The following article by Connie Schultz was posted on the Creators.com website July 26, 2018:
Last week, CNN Washington correspondent Ryan Nobles tweeted about a random encounter with a member of the public: “This rarely happens so I thought it was worth documenting. Gentleman stops me at the hotel where the press are staging covering POTUS — asks if I’m part of the press corps. I say yes — he replies
“‘Thank you for your service, the First Amendment is so important right now.'”
I understand why Nobles wanted to share this. It was not that he agreed with the man’s assessment. As Nobles made clear in a later tweet, he would never claim to be a public servant, and no journalist should. His original tweet offered a glimpse into how it feels whenever a member of the public is not attacking us for what we do.