Jim Acosta

[Benton]

(11-21-2018, 09:50 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Yes Acosta acted the fool.

How ever BFine has a point. There are more reporters there that DON"T get to ask a question. Does that mean they didn't do their job??? According to you yes, and that is false, because they still get to report the answers on what others asked. If it's filmed live, you get the info just the same as the person sitting there. Only difference is, you won't get a chance to ask a question, but it's no different than the POTUS never calling you now is it?

Not asking a question doesn't mean they're not getting to do their job. They may not get picked to answer, or they may have their question asked. Often times a reporter has spent hours (days sometimes) getting a story together and that interaction is his chance to finish it... and sometimes that finish comes when someone else asks the necessary question. For reporters that don't get to ask their question today, they hold it (and the story) until tomorrow.

An elected official reading from a script and taking a question or two is not an open flow of information. Doing their job often requires asking questions that aren't part of the conference, and that's widely accepted as OK because that's the only contact they're having. It's not like Acosts or any other reporter is calling up the POTUS and asking for a quote.

(11-21-2018, 10:15 PM)bfine32 Wrote: No, that was Benton's opinion; you know; the expert. 

I yield to your countless hours spent in press pens and outstanding 1st amendment expertise of just giving his opinion in stuff and calling it news.