To the OP: I agree completely that the idea of ideological tests for press contacts is silly and stupid. It is a can of worms that should never have been opened.
But now I really want to hear your thoughts on the lifeboat problem. Because it sounds like you've never really considered it.
Honestly it sounds like you have some faith that others, governments perhaps, to whom you pay your taxes, have considered it on your behalf.
Because, unfortunately,
they have. Governments have, fairly consistently, since the birth of modern fiat currencies and the "progressive" era that spawned them, chosen to eat or throw overboard less desirable members of the lifeboat, on average about once every generation or so.
