After a blistering report and an apology to a journalist, should the RCMP have the power to decide who is and isn't media?

No.

No.

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.