This is Bullsh^t!
The White House briefings are a privilege, not a right under the Constitution.
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Looking forward to the President taking away another press pass as warranted.
When is the Trump Administration going to move that gaggle of propagandists out of the Whitehouse and into another federal building?
I agree. If not mistaken, CNN is the credentialed agency, not Jim Acosta. His access flows from the credentials issued to CNN. So, he has no “right” to be there. CNN has, at their option the “right” to name another reporter to cover the beat. Therefore, there is no “harm” to CNN. Their ability to cover the White House is not exclusive to Jim Acosta’s ability to access the facility.
Frivolous lawsuit...make CNN pay all legal fees.
I don’t know why he even has press briefings, all they do is ask loaded questions. “Being that you are racist and like Hitler how is the weather today?” The press has absolutely no other interest than harming Trump and the country.
That’s why the whole WH Briefing thing needs to be ended!
The media insists on behaving like spoiled children, tell them the “playground” privileges are suspended until further notice. End the WH Press Briefings!
There is no Constitutional requirement to do these in the current way they are done. The current method is hopelessly out of date anyway. It just encourages “Look-At-Me” prima donna behavior!
The method that should now be done is the following send out a notice to all current certified WH Press Clowns a link where they can upload questions on the “Issues of the Day (actually any topic!)”. “Issues of the day” will have the highest priority in being answered quickly. Also put said link on the WH Web site now anyone can play “WH Reporter”, announce that the first 100 “Issues-of-the-Day” questions will be answered. (Duplicate questions will be combined/discarded!). These answers will be available in the WH Press Room on DVDs with a paper summary available for pick up by the “Press Corps”. (They will also be downloadable from the WH web site.) Other questions will be answered in due time and posted on the WH web page and also available for anyone to download. The “Press Corps” can then take this and scream, whine, cry to their hearts content on network TV shows about the answers. Maybe someone will actually watch!
Trump can then buy time on the networks for “FDR style Fireside Chats” to get out whatever information he wants to get out. The “newsies” can groan & moan about that on the Rat rebuttable or their own news shows. Again maybe someone will watch! Also do similar shows and put them on youtube, etc. Remember the up & coming new voters relay less & less on TV, the Internet is their medium to pick up information. Trump needs to get in there and exploit that! But the current WH Press Briefings, that’s last weeks stale fish, get rid of them!
True, but they are judge shopping in the dc court.
Absolutely correct. The WH doesn't actually need to do press briefings. As to this Acosta idiot; he is very rude, not only to the POTUS, but, also to his fellow journalists who also would like to ask a question; but, this guy hogs the mic and refuses to ask his one question with one follow-up and then sit down.
He should have his press pass revoked just for doing the back and forth with the intern over the mic; acting like a toddler that doesn't want to share a toy. It was ridiculous.