Anyone who follows the White House news conferences knows the press there is “special” in many respects, but a couple of things need some work. It was obvious yesterday that the press has lost any semblance of neutrality. They pressed the President’s doctor beyond anything I have ever seen before, in a desperate attempt to make news about the US President’s mental capacity to rule the country. Never that I can remember has a group sunk so low in the name of Journalism. That was not what I was taught about the role of reporters, and it never goes that far.
CNN’s so-called reporter, Jim Acosta, took that one step further in a later meeting by shouting questions that had nothing to do with his reason for being there. This is becoming unreal. No head of state can have a press conference without questions that relate only to US internal politics. Norway's President has no real reason to respond to questions about what the US President said at a private meeting. I can’t imagine why they put themselves in front of the US press knowing they will not get a question that has anything to do with relations between the US and the country in question. When I lived in England, I can’t remember a foreign official being hounded the way the US press corps thinks it is entitled to do.
When Acosta’s unprofessional conduct was greeted with the word “out” from the US President, there is reason to believe the tolerance level in the White House just went down. None too soon.
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