Has there ever been anyone less deserving of the spotlight who has managed to hog it quite so thoroughly as CNN's White House show horse? Most recently, on Nov. 7, Acosta gave President Trump a moral lecture in the form of a loaded "Question" about why Trump called the migrant "Caravan" an "Invasion." According to Acosta, it is not an invasion because the migrants were hundreds of miles away, and besides, the migrants aren't going to be "Climbing over walls and so on." One week later, as we all know, members of the caravan were sitting astride the border wall and invading U.S. territory.
Mind you, the president answered Acosta's "When are you going to stop beating your wife?" question, and acknowledged that he and the reporter have a difference of opinion about what an invasion is, but Acosta was pressing his left-wing agenda and not actually trying to elicit information with his "Fake question." Moreover, Acosta then tried to commandeer the press conference and ask another unrelated question even after the president had called on someone else.
It wasn't until Acosta refused to turn over the microphone to a White House intern and insisted on sparring with the president that Trump called him a "Rude, terrible person." Later, the White House withdrew Acosta's press pass on account of his jostling with the intern when refusing to hand over the microphone, resulting in CNN suing the Trump administration to protect its preening, petulant reporter.
Face it, if Acosta were a grandstanding lawyer, he would have long since been found in contempt of court by the presiding judge, but because he is instead a grandstanding TV journalist he apparently has a constitutional right to do and say anything he wants so long as CNN is willing to sign his paycheck.
Really? Have we actually reached the point where the First Amendment enshrines the right to be rude? And if Jim Acosta has that right, then what is to stop every so-called journalist in the world from showing up at the White House with a whoopee cushion and a demand for a press pass?
I know that is the response de rigueur for editors when someone like Acosta goes out of bounds, but I bring nearly four decades of experience in community journalism to the table, and to me Acosta is just one more self-important reporter who gives a bad name to the hard-working journalists who take their job more seriously than their haircut.
No one wants to sit Jim Acosta down and tell him the truth.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/19/jim_acosta_and_the_hubris_of_celebrity_journalism.html
Mind you, the president answered Acosta's "When are you going to stop beating your wife?" question, and acknowledged that he and the reporter have a difference of opinion about what an invasion is, but Acosta was pressing his left-wing agenda and not actually trying to elicit information with his "Fake question." Moreover, Acosta then tried to commandeer the press conference and ask another unrelated question even after the president had called on someone else.
It wasn't until Acosta refused to turn over the microphone to a White House intern and insisted on sparring with the president that Trump called him a "Rude, terrible person." Later, the White House withdrew Acosta's press pass on account of his jostling with the intern when refusing to hand over the microphone, resulting in CNN suing the Trump administration to protect its preening, petulant reporter.
Face it, if Acosta were a grandstanding lawyer, he would have long since been found in contempt of court by the presiding judge, but because he is instead a grandstanding TV journalist he apparently has a constitutional right to do and say anything he wants so long as CNN is willing to sign his paycheck.
Really? Have we actually reached the point where the First Amendment enshrines the right to be rude? And if Jim Acosta has that right, then what is to stop every so-called journalist in the world from showing up at the White House with a whoopee cushion and a demand for a press pass?
I know that is the response de rigueur for editors when someone like Acosta goes out of bounds, but I bring nearly four decades of experience in community journalism to the table, and to me Acosta is just one more self-important reporter who gives a bad name to the hard-working journalists who take their job more seriously than their haircut.
No one wants to sit Jim Acosta down and tell him the truth.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/19/jim_acosta_and_the_hubris_of_celebrity_journalism.html
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