Jim Acosta

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(11-19-2018, 08:37 PM)Benton Wrote: 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. 

As I said: We'll just disagree that Acosta could not do his job without the Hard Pass. But it reads better if you can sell the narrative that the WH denied his 1st Amendment Rights.