'A sword hanging over our heads': Trump discovers new weapon against media

[rangerrebew]

 'A sword hanging over our heads': Trump discovers new weapon against media

The administration is drawing up rules for White House reporters' behavior, and the president said if journalists don't follow them, 'we'll end up back in court, and we'll win.'

By JASON SCHWARTZ

11/16/2018 06:13 PM EST


CNN and Jim Acosta may have won their battle with the White House in court on Friday, but President Donald Trump has found a new weapon in his long war against the media.

After a judge ruled that the White House violated the CNN correspondent’s right to due process by stripping him of his press badge, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared that the administration was drawing up new rules to govern reporters’ behavior — and a process for booting them if those rules are broken.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/16/trump-jim-acosta-cnn-999675

[rangerrebew]

So - Accoster's legal "victory" turns out to be a control for the WH on reporters.  His fellow "reporters" are probably not going to like the new rules or consequences.

[verga]

Be careful what you wish for, sometimes you get it.

[Free Vulcan]

'Please do not throw me into that briar patch Jim Accostya!'

[Cyber Liberty]

Sometimes it's not smart, in the long view, to push a legal case as far as you can.  If Accostya had just waited, the hue and cry over his Press Pass would have applied sufficient pressure on the White House to get him reinstated.  Now there is a set of posted rules, and he will probably have trouble staying in them, leading to another ouster that sticks next time.

[verga]

Sometimes it's not smart, in the long view, to push a legal case as far as you can.  If Accostya had just waited, the hue and cry over his Press Pass would have applied sufficient pressure on the White House to get him reinstated.  Now there is a set of posted rules, and he will probably have trouble staying in them, leading to another ouster that sticks next time.

this one should have stuck. CNN could have sent any number of other reporters who did not want to be the main attraction.