Posted on 11/08/2018 9:24:41 AM PST by Kaslin
Various press organizations have decided to chime on the Trump administration's decision to revoke Jim Acosta's hard press pass on Wednesday night.
The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) slammed the White House and encouraged them to reinstate Acosta's access in a statement:
The White House Correspondents' Association strongly objects to the Trump Administration's decision to use US Secret Service security credentials as a tool to punish a reporter with whom it has a difficult relationship. Revoking access to the White House complex is a reaction out of line to the purported offense and is unacceptable
Journalists may use a range of approaches to carry out their jobs and the WHCA does not police the tone or frequency of the questions its members ask of powerful senior government officials, including the President. Such interactions, however uncomfortable they may appear to be, help define the strength of our national institutions.
We urge the White House to immediately reverse this weak and misguided action.
We encourage anyone with doubts that this reaction was disproportionate to the perceived offense to the video of the events from earlier today.
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press had a similar sentiment as the WHCA. Here's their press release:
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the nation’s premier defender of the legal rights of journalists, joins the White House Correspondents’ Association in vehemently objecting to the revocation of a CNN reporter’s access credentials. Journalists have a right to ask questions and seek answers on behalf of the American people.
This is clearly inappropriate and unprecedented punishment by the Trump administration for what it perceives as unfair coverage by the reporter, and White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ false description of the events leading up to it is insulting not only to the nation’s journalists, but to its people.
The founders of our country knew there would be tension between our leaders and our journalists. In fact, they designed our system that way, knowing that a free and assertive press is the best defense against tyranny.
We urge the White House to reconsider this overreach of power and to reinstate Jim Acosta’s credential immediately.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Trump administration stands by their decision.
Pull CNN’s credential and bring in the National Enquirer, Globe, and National Examiner.
The questions won’t be any more odd, but the reporter’s questions will be more respectful and likely more journalistic.
Acosta was grandstanding , showing disrespect to the office and denying other reporters time to ask a question.
Acosta should be banned permanently. If other reporters want to boycott White House press conferences, I am sure Trump will not mind.
Newest howls from the sniveling main stream media are claiming video of sissy acosta was doctored.
Cease all press functions at the White House.
The “free press” in this country is the official propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
All CNN reporters(Carver Media Group)should be banned from WH pressers.
An example needs to be made.
If we have to go to fakebook jail for telling the truth, they should have to go to an isolation unit for spreading lies and causing division.
They do not deserve the privilege of interviewing POTUS or Sarah Sanders.
I even heard Stirewalt (yeah, I turned on Tucker’s show early and the blimp was on with Martha) say that Trump took very few questions. Never mind that Acosta had already asked two question and his co-worker had already been recognized by Trump for the next question. The politicization of EVERYTHING started with the Clintons. They also brought scorched earth campaigning to DC. This country is much the poorer for the Clintons having had so much influence for so long.
Wish I could hear that.
Our MSM are showing their true colors more and more, as they show us the disrespectful, intolerant, ignorant and hateful un-Americans they truly are.
They want a civil war. They want to see the blood of Christian, conservative patriots spilled. They want to be the elite in a socialist/communist country.
These are the Brownshirts of today.
My thought is that the other news groups should protest this move by tendering their press credentials as well.
That expression on lady's face is priceless. She looks up and Trump and it's like she's saying, "would you come down here and wipe up the floor with this retard!"
We all know how these just out of high school female interns go through ninja/special forces training just to rough up these old men in press conferences. /S
Are you kidding? They hand fed bammy the questions and answers.
MSM, nothing more then d’rat propaganda arm.
Not to believed under any circumstances.
He sure does
LOL, "overreach of power"?? The media has locked arms and is laughing - here's a simple solution - They ask 1 question with NO follow-up. Sit down hand over mike then question gets answered -NO BACK AND FORTH.
Exactly, you nailed it!
“MSM, nothing more then d’rat propaganda arm. Not to believed under any circumstances.”
WE know that, FRiend. But what about millenials, women and blacks? (More than half of voters.)
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