WHCA 'Alarmed' Over Hillary, Donald Treatment

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her likely general election opponent, Donald Trump, both pose a threat to the free press, the White House Correspondents Association warned Thursday.

According to The Washington Examiner, the WHCA's outgoing president, Carol Lee, and its incoming chief, Jeff Mason, said Thursday they have been "alarmed by the treatment of the press in the 2016 presidential campaign."

Both Trump and Clinton have had their own issues with the press. Trump has threatened reporters and entire news outlets with banishment from his events and legal action, while Clinton tends to avoid journalists altogether, and hasn't held a formal press conference in more than 200 days.

"The public's right to know is infringed if certain reporters are banned from a candidate's events because the candidate doesn't like a story they have written or broadcast, as Donald Trump has done," they wrote in an op-ed published by USA Today.