White Fights For His Rights

In light of Armond White's recent difficulties seeing Greenberg, some of his peers have started invoking "film critics' rights" (whatever that means), presumably for fear that they might also pay a price for excessive ad hominem trash talk. But shouldn't critics' rights -- in this case, the chance to hand-pick the advance screening White wants to attend -- be reserved for film critics with a desire to honestly consider and evaluate the film in question?