I was with you until this part. It’s just not true, and the Fortune 500 analogy is weak.
The Bills, like all NFL teams, are in the entertainment business. Reporters are allowed in the locker room and coaches give press conferences because fans want information about the team and providing them that information is part of the teams’ and the league’s mission: to increase fan interest in the team and the sport in general, which increases ratings, which increases revenue, etc. It’s not complicated. So no, it’s not really a privilege for a reporter to have access to the locker room; it’s part of a symbiotic relationship—a quid pro quo, if you will—between teams and the media and the team’s fans.
And of course, most Fortune 500 companies aren’t in the entertainment business and wouldn’t benefit in any way by providing reporters broad access to their boardrooms and headquarters, so they don’t do it. Terrible analogy.