Critics pan Jim Acosta's new book: He has 'become a commentator, not a reporter'

Fox News ^ | June 13, 2019 | Joeseph A. Wulfsohn

[jazusamo]

Reviews of the new book "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America" are starting to pour in and they're panning the book and its author, CNN liberal star reporter Jim Acosta, who one critics insisted has "become a commentator" in the Trump era.

NPR book critic Annalisa Quinn hits Acosta's book for not asking why President Trump has "succeeded" with his attacks against the media but used the anti-Trump memoir "as an opportunity to relitigate his spats with the White House rather than to meaningfully interrogate the cultural shift that left huge numbers of people despising and fearing the press."

"In 'The Enemy of the People,' Acosta sounds less like a reporter than a rival athlete: 'We beat Trump!' Acosta remembers shouting after the lawsuit. Later, he writes, the 'Trump people ... had clearly gotten spanked.' The tone throughout is jocular and self-congratulatory," Quinn wrote. "Describing a Trump confrontation, he writes that another reporter was 'the real hero' of the news conference for defending Acosta, something you only say if you believe you are, in fact, the apparent and obvious hero."

Quinn scrutinized Acosta's argument that journalists either "absorb Trump's attacks" or "push back and stand up for ourselves," calling that an "artificial distinction."

"Reporters become part of the story when the president attacks them. But in between absorbing abuse and hitting back is another option: fighting for access, challenging the president on lies, and reporting the facts the way you would with any other story," Quinn argued. "Acosta seems to believe that the attacks give him special dispensation to offer his personal opinions, and that doing so is even an act of bravery or public service."

[jazusamo]

Little Jimmy's book is panned by the liberal NPR and Guardian. LOL!

[ptsal]

Now that Jimmy is a commentator, yank his press credentials.

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[lee martell]

Surprisingly, Jimmy’s “Pals” are giving him a hard time.
Maybe their done with giving him so much attention just for being annoying. Somebody has put a word out that Acosta’s shining moment may be about over.

[Ann Archy]

He is one of the most OBNOXIOUS, RUDE, DISGUSTING, CLASSLESS people in the media....and MOST of them are!

[Cboldt]

They want their turn in the spotlight, and they are tired of him trying to hog it.

[jazusamo]

I couldn’t agree more, he’s always out to skew his reporting by making himself part of the story.

[alternatives?]

They don’t recognize that Obama’s lies never bothered them.

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[BigEdLB]

Did anyone check the base of Acosta’s neck to see if there is an alien gill protruding

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I haven’t seen his book yet. Is it an egomaniacal self-praising tome? If so, it should be titled “Me, Myself and I”.

If the book is reprinted on the blackmarket, look for it under the title “Jim Acosta: Once an Asshole, Always an Asshole”.

[wardamneagle]

Once an a-hole always an a-hole.

[wardamneagle]

Once an a-hole always an a-hole.

[Clutch Martin]

Commentator? Mr. Potato head maybe....

[Clutch Martin]

Wow... I actually watched that episode last night.

[Clutch Martin]

Wow... I actually watched that episode last night.

[wildcard_redneck]

I think that President Trump allowed Acosta to stay so that he would suck up all the oxygen from other communists in the White House press briefings.

[conservative98]

[simpson96]

He's become a commentator, not a reporter?

Where have they been for the last 3.5 years?

[Secret Agent Man]

Hes a crybully.