I am surprised the commie propagandist reportards did not sue the intern also.
At this point,it is totally irrelevant what kind of reporter Acosta is. The court is faced with a question of whether the President has the right to determine access to his work space. If he can be dictated to by a private business (CNN) so can the courts and congress. I can just see Mr. Acosta strolling into the Supreme Court and demanding to interrogate the Chief Justice.
7. It is CNN. I mean really, given their tumbling viewer share, who gives a rip? So a few radical leftists have to go to one of the other dozens of leftist media outlets. Who, really, would notice?
Jim Acosta is a very, very big deal. In his own tiny mind.
The guy’s a bully and a jerk. He will not win fighting with President Trump although there’s no way you could convince him of that.
I would add to this list - CNN is a division of Time Warner. Time Warner with the merger with AT&T now has near monopoly on all cable broadcast. They are part of an oligopoly but have exclusive cable broadcast rights in every territory they operate - they have an exclusive regional monopolies granted by Congress.
I would argue that CNN is only “important” because it has and is part of a monopoly. It does not have to compete with all news providers, it is given promotion on the cable network commercials, it is given a prominent ranking channel position on the cable box, and Time Warner has the right and ability to squash competitors to CNN by refusing them access to cable broadcast.
CNN is part of an oligopoly of cable news channels that is run by a monopolistic corporation, and receives several forms of subsidy as a result of this arrangement. This has to be part of the calculus why Fox News filed amicus brief - Fox is in some ways at the mercy of CNN’s parent company. Sure they have self-interest in protecting their own access to the WH, but they also have self-interest in playing nice with Time Warner.
As the article outlines, many outlets are denied access. CNN is only special because it is part of a rigged system that closes out most of the potential competition. Sure they allow some other news networks broadcast channels, but they all pay a high price to access the cable. There are plenty of would-be challengers who are trying to broadcast on internet-only that would love to get a channel on the cable broadcast that Time Warner would likely never permit.
CNN can’t really complain about “competition” when their parent company rigs things in their favor (and they still come in behind many other news outfits).
Proof leftists are elitists:
The 1st: applies only to professional mainstream journalists, not to We The People.
The 2nd: applies only to Federal military, State militias, and local police, not We The People.
They think they are the Ruling Class, and the Bill of Rights does not apply to the People.
With today’s technology it should not be a problem to move the entire press room to another building. Then set up desk with microphones (controlled by the White House).
The President could appear on their screen and he could see them. He would then control the microphone of the reporter.
Or...simply give up the daily briefing
Set up a web site where everyone has access and post the daily briefings on the web site.