CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — One minute, a large, bearded private security guard named Charlie had his hand on my back telling me I couldn’t interview a delegate at a bar, and just a few hours later, six Black Lives Matter protesters had encircled me, asking me if I was “a fed” and telling me I was not allowed to report on their protest.

In my first half-day at the coronavirus-modified Republican National Convention, I encountered near uniform opposition toward the practice of reporting, not from Republican delegates but from GOP officials, their private security, and from left-wing protesters.

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