Jim Acosta

[Benton]

(11-19-2018, 08:26 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'll just leave with you making the assumption that only Jim Acosta can obtain information. I was under the assumption that Press Conferences with POTUS were public information. Didn't realize you had to be in the room to obtain the information. I also didn't realize you had to ask the question to obtain info. I wonder what members of the press that don't get to ask questions report on? According to you, it can only be cats doing funny stuff. 

I get it, you're a journalist; you're going to side with the journalist. I simply have a problem with him choosing not voluntarily surrendering his mic when the staff asked him 3 times to do so. I think if you want special access to POTUS you should follow the rules. 

So you think if Acosta has his hard pass he won't share his views? You kinda lost me on that one. 

Conferences give reporters a chance to ask questions. Those questions aren't always about what the conference is about.  Some stories take weeks or months to put together. The windows for talking to elected officials and cabinet members or other people of that level, are very small. Press briefings are one of those windows, as is being in the general area, but that isn't an option if you're watching it remotely.

Personally, I think Acosta should have surrendered the mic. What he did was rude to his fellow journalists. But that doesn't permit the WH to ban him.


As to the last, no, that's not at all what I said.