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CNN appeared particularly peeved that President Trump veered off-script Tuesday by attacking presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the Rose Garden, unleashing the liberal network’s reporters and anchors to criticize and offer partisan opinions of the event. Conservative communications strategist Chris Barron said CNN has dropped journalism for “sad resistance performance art” since Trump took office, and Tuesday was simply the latest example. “CNN is a collection of the least self-aware people on the planet. Their 24/7 rants about Trump speak more about themselves than they do about the President,” Barron told Fox News. “CNN, long ago, dropped any...

CNN producer-turned media watchdog Steve Krakauer described his former colleague, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, as a fame-seeking attention-getter who is “actively helping Trump get re-elected” while making the press look bad. “I don't think CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is a bad guy. I worked with him at CNN, and he was a solid, competent reporter. If Acosta's goal was to be a great White House reporter, he could probably do it,” Krakauer wrote. “But that's not Jim Acosta's goal. Jim Acosta wants to be famous.” Krakauer’s media newsletter, Fourth Watch, has gained popularity for holding...

CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s latest report has been labeled “idiotic” and a “‘so what?’ moment” by critics who feel it’s simply the liberal network’s latest attempt to weaponize coronavirus against President Trump. Acosta’s story headlined, “Source: Trump is concerned about coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus,” cited a single source “close to” the president who said Trump is uneasy after coming into contact with a Brazilian official who tested positive for coronavirus. “This is the most idiotic thing I've seen all week. And this week that's saying something,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor...

President Trump scolded CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Tuesday during a press conference in India, telling the reporter he should be “ashamed” and blasting the liberal network. Acosta asked Trump if he would accept foreign interference in the upcoming election and how he could justify replacing Joseph Maguire as acting director of national intelligence. The president didn’t appreciate the two-part question. “First of all, I want no help from any country, and I haven’t been given help from any country,” Trump answered before referencing a report that CNN had to walk back on Sunday. “If you see what...

President Trump scolded CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta for attempting to cut in during a news conference in the Oval Office on Thursday. Many of the media's questions involved the articles of impeachment being delivered to the Senate earlier in the day as well as the various claims made by Lev Parnas, an associate to Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. "I don't know him. I have never had a conversation that I remember with him," Trump said about Parnas. It was then that Acosta tried to squeeze in his own questions,... ~snip~ "Quiet," the president told Acosta, and...

The feud between Fox News host Sean Hannity and CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta continued Thursday night after the former ripped the latter’s book sales. In a series of tweets, Mr. Hannity accused Mr. Acosta of “begging” him to get on his prime-time Fox News show to promote his new anti-Trump book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.” Mr. Hannity called Mr. Acosta’s book debut a “total failure” compared to Mark Levin’s “Unfreedom of the Press,” which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for the last month....

Reviews of the new book "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America" are starting to pour in and they're panning the book and its author, CNN liberal star reporter Jim Acosta, who one critics insisted has "become a commentator" in the Trump era. NPR book critic Annalisa Quinn hits Acosta's book for not asking why President Trump has "succeeded" with his attacks against the media but used the anti-Trump memoir "as an opportunity to relitigate his spats with the White House rather than to meaningfully interrogate the cultural shift that left huge numbers...

Video and tweets at link. WATCH: Acosta Talks About His New Book And Proves, Once Again, He Doesn't Understand Why He's The 'Enemy Of The People' CNN's Jim Acosta has made a household name for himself – and not in a good way. He has become the face of "fake news" and shoddy reporting. He's really great at breaking rules and pretending he's somehow the victim. Does his press pass being revoked for pushing an intern ring a bell? He's now using his experiences to write a "tell-all" type of book about what it's like reporting on the Trump administration....

End of title: and a paid pundit'CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s upcoming book has raised eyebrows both inside and outside of the network’s newsroom. The outspoken Acosta is being criticized by insiders and academics alike for further blurring the line between being an unbiased reporter, or a commentator "pushing his personal perspectives." ~snip~ One current CNN employee told Fox News that threats to the free press should obviously be taken seriously and reporters need to seek the truth and report it – but Acosta may no longer be right for the job. “Jim Acosta is, a lot of times,...

Sarah Sanders sparred with CNN’s Jim Acosta during the first White House press briefing in 42 days on Monday. The exchange was prompted after NBC’s Hallie Jackson initially asked Sanders if Trump truly believes that “Democrats hate Jews,” following Trump's declaration last week that Democrats are "anti-Israel" and "anti-Jewish." The White House press secretary declined to answer directly, noting that the president has laid out his position on the matter in the past. “Democrats have had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comments and have refused to do that,” Sanders said, referring to the ongoing controversy surrounding Rep. Ilhan...

President Trump scolded CNN’s Jim Acosta on Friday during the president's Rose Garden announcement that he is declaring a national emergency on the southern border, telling the reporter he has “an agenda” -- before angel moms in attendance confronted the chief CNN White House correspondent. The clash came as Acosta challenged Trump over what he described as a "disconnect" concerning his description of illegal immigration. “You are presenting information about what’s happening at the border, calling it an invasion, talking about women with duct tape over their mouths and so on, and yet there is a lot of reporting out...

CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is writing a book about the Trump administration and its contentious relationship with the media. The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers made the announcement Thursday, saying the book will be titled, "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America." "Acosta, the most visible member of the media branded an 'enemy of the people' by President Trump, exposes the tumultuous and dangerous realities of the current White House and its war on truth and the first amendment," Harper said in its announcement. "Going inside the briefing room and...

Kellyanne Conway mocked CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during a press gaggle on Tuesday. Kellyanne Conway embarrassed CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during a press gaggle on Tuesday, referring to him as a "smarta--" unliked by other reporters. Acosta asked Conway if she could promise that President Trump would tell the truth when addressing the nation on Tuesday night. “Yes, Jim” Conway shot back, “Can you promise you will … the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Am I allowed I say 'God 'to you?” Acosta – who has emerged as a...

Video at link. CNN’s Jim Acosta made his return to the James S. Brady room on Tuesday for a press briefing with Sarah Sanders -- 20 days after the reporter was temporarily banned from the White House. Sanders, who until Tuesday hadn't held a briefing in weeks, took questions after sessions with National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and National Security Adviser John Bolton – during which Acosta kept quiet. The press secretary eventually called on Acosta, who asked if President Trump would recommend that Paul Manafort should cooperate with authorities going forward. The questioning grew tenser -- though not...