The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 17, 2018, 12:21:03 pm
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CNN's Jim Acosta: I dare Trump to let me interview him
by Naomi Lim
| May 17, 2018 01:14 AM
CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta challenged President Trump to grant him an one-on-one interview.
"I dare him to sit down with me," Acosta said during an interview Wednesday on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" when pressed by the host.
Despite his confrontational manner in the briefing room, Acosta told Kimmel he has professional relationships with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and his successor Sarah Sanders.
But he said they weren't bowling buddies after hours — a similar dynamic he shared with communications staffers serving the Obama administration.
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That would be a magnificent train wreck.
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LOL. Of course this crying basket case would love to have a President sit down with him just so people would know he is alive.
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What interview? It would just be an endless cacophony of Acosta nattering and Trump interjecting with 'excuse me.'
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Acosta sounds like a desperate ex-girlfriend that just can't let go of the fact he's not wanted or needed.
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Acosta sounds like a desperate ex-girlfriend that just can't let go of the fact he's not wanted or needed.
Ditto!
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Jim's a legend in his own mind. I'm surprised he has threatened to "go back to cutting myself".
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Acosta sounds like a desperate ex-girlfriend that just can't let go of the fact he's not wanted or needed.
He sure does. 88devil
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Got myself a journalism sheepskin from Cal State, Chico in 1978. I’ve still got my text books, most tattered, authored in the 40’s and 50’s. It was a different journalism back then.
In one of my assigned books, The Complete Reporter, copyright 1942, reprinted 1965 it describes a journalist:
“A journalist is a writer who’s stock in trade consists of current events. As contrasted with other types of writers who may employ imagination in their quest for reader appeal, the reporter must deal with facts. He records and sometimes interprets what has happened or will happen, and under certain circumstances he is permitted to give his own opinions on the events he reports. Hence, the two things basic to the journalist’s work are facts and writing, and his two distinctive functions are gathering information and composing stories which present this information accurately and interestingly.â€
Now let’s go to the videotape in a typical Jim Accosted report from the WH:
Notice his similarities to journalism, the angry tone, the leading questions, the demands for apologies to unsubstantiated rumors, the “do you deny†questions and, of course, always the desperate attempt to force a sensational headline.
The tape don’t lie. Jim Acosta, Roving Dick.
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Got myself a journalism sheepskin from Cal State, Chico in 1978. I’ve still got my text books, most tattered, authored in the 40’s and 50’s. It was a different journalism back then.
In one of my assigned books, The Complete Reporter, copyright 1942, reprinted 1965 it describes a journalist:
“A journalist is a writer who’s stock in trade consists of current events. As contrasted with other types of writers who may employ imagination in their quest for reader appeal, the reporter must deal with facts. He records and sometimes interprets what has happened or will happen, and under certain circumstances he is permitted to give his own opinions on the events he reports. Hence, the two things basic to the journalist’s work are facts and writing, and his two distinctive functions are gathering information and composing stories which present this information accurately and interestingly.â€
Now let’s go to the videotape in a typical Jim Accosted report from the WH:
Notice his similarities to journalism, the angry tone, the leading questions, the demands for apologies to unsubstantiated rumors, the “do you deny†questions and, of course, always the desperate attempt to force a sensational headline.
The tape don’t lie. Jim Acosta, Roving Dick.
We need more reporters and less journalists IMO.