Here are things that the media doesn't believe threatens the First Amendment.
1. Compelling nuns, bakers and photographers to violate their religious beliefs
2. Censoring pro-Trump media outlets by embedding fact checkers into Facebook and Google to ban them from social media
3. Firing employees for having the wrong political views
4. Going after rival media outlets, like Sinclair, and journalists who dissent, like Bari Weiss and John Solomon
5. Obama's targeting of journalists to shut down whistleblowers
Here are things that the media believes do threaten the First Amendment
1. Trump not showing up to their nerd prom joke dinner
Presidents don't always want to show up and tell jokes and socialize with the press corps, but until now it's been a part of the job in the modern media age.
"Historically presidents have felt that it's important to send the signals, both to Americans and to the rest of the world, that they support this sort of quintessential part of American democracy, the First Amendment," correspondents association president Margaret Talev said on CNN Saturday morning.
Part of the job?
It must be in that part of the Constitution that only activist Federal judges have access to. The one that also contains DACA, the right to an abortion, and the right for Muslim terrorists to come to America.
Attending nerd prom for mainstream media personalities and whichever unfunny comedian they giggle over before broadcasts, is not what the First Amendment means.
Nerd prom's entanglements between politics and the media only shows that the media's partisan cynicism remains the greatest threat to the First Amendment. And the media would do well to actually read the First Amendment instead of giggling over more Colbert/Oliver clips.