Kind of like a set of rules for sixth graders.
“”We have created these rules with a degree of regret.”
LOL. The same “regret” I get when i stomp on cockroaches..
Careful what you ask for, MSM
CC
IOW “If you don’t like it you might take it up with your buddy Acosta.”
what we used to refer to as “journalism” ceased to function decades ago; it has certainly been dead for the last 10 years.
and make them ask in sign language.
need a time out space in the corner.......
"...yield the floor / surrender the microphone..."
for kicks, Sarah should read the “Acosta” rules before every daily briefing, and Trump should come to the first several sessions.......
As so often happens, the misbehavior of one screws it up for the many. But watch, follow up questions will become two distinct questions unless denied by the moderator consistently.
Should have included:
5. When asking a question, no statements are allowed, just the question.
6. If not directly called on, asking a question out of turn is not allowed.
Good luck with the one question, occasional follow-up rule.
Hope they enforce it.
Happy for these rules, but here is what’s going to happen:
The whole WH press pool is going to start acting like a CARTEL.
“Kisshya-kai”, in Japanese that means “press pool”. In Japan each press group covering a gummint ministry works out AHEAD OF TIME who is going to ask what. So that “there is order”.
The effect, of course, is that their press conferences have all the spontaneity of high mass at St. Anthony’s.
There are a jillion ways Japan is great, but this is not one of them, the gummint/press relationship is supposed to be at least a little adversarial, not super chummy (they have the opposite problem as the USA does).
I think the WH press pool considers Acosta’s conversial nature a boon to all of them, and they’ll somehow collude to make sure there are exactly the same headaches as before.
I think this WH move is overdue, but I think the pool will react by jettisoning the last remnants of inter-entity competition:
They will act more like a cartel now.
(1) A journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists;
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And it needs to be clear that they are to be questions, not challenges or debates.
And please stop putting the camera on them.
The NFL uses a big parabolic mic to capture distant player noises:
Why use a handheld mic AT ALL..?
Why can’t Trump call on indiv presstitutes, with a nearby aid then pointing the parabolic mic at IT’s mouth..?
Presto, no more need to wrench back a microphone, faster change-over.
LOL. Jim Acosta and the myopic CNN court gambit will come back to bite them. The so-called press should be proud of their village idiot.
Force violators to complete 40 hours of sensitivity training if they abuse the staff and 10 hours of approved community service - BEFORE they get their press pass returned.
Force a public apology for creating disorder.
Three strikes and they are blackballed forever.
4) Questions will be asked as a question without extemporaneous accusations or explanations.
5) Journalists shall, at all times maintain a level of professional ethics commensurate with a fair, balanced and unbiased media.
I’m betting CNN ASScosta breaks the rules.................