Posted on 11/19/2018 1:46:56 PM PST by Kaslin
The White House released new rules for presidential press conferences on Monday in hopes of restoring decorum among reporters. They include the following:
(1) A journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists;
(2) At the discretion of the President or other White House official taking questions, a follow-up question or questions may be permitted; and where a follow up has been allowed and asked, the questioner will then yield the floor;
(3) "Yielding the floor" includes, when applicable, physically surrendering the microphone to White House staff for use by the next questioner.
(4) Failure to abide by any of rules (1)-(3) may result in suspension or revocation of the journalist's hard pass.
"We have created these rules with a degree of regret. For years, members of the White House press corps have attended countless press events with the President and other officials without engaging in the behavior Mr. Acosta displayed at the November 7, 2018 press conference," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders released in a statement. "We would have greatly preferred to continue hosting White House press conferences in reliance on a set of understood professional norms, and we believe the overwhelming majority of journalists covering the White House share that preference. But, given the position taken by CNN, we now feel obligated to replace previously shared practices with explicit rules."
"We are mindful that a more elaborate and comprehensive set of rules might need to be devised, including, for example, for journalist conduct in the open (non-press room) areas inside and outside the White House and for Air Force One," she continued. "At this time however, we have decided not to frame such rules in the hope that professional journalistic norms will suffice to regulate conduct in those places. If unprofessional behavior occurs in those settings, or if a court should decide that explicit rules are required to regulate conduct there, we will be forced to reconsider this decision."
CNN dropped its lawsuit against the White House after the reinstatement of Acosta's hard-pass.
"The White Houses interaction with the press is, and generally should be, subject to a natural give-and-take. President Trump believes strongly in the First Amendment, and a free press and is the most accessible President in modern history," Sanders said. "It would be a great loss for all if, instead of relying on the professionalism of White House journalists, we were compelled to devise a lengthy and detailed code of conduct for White House events."
I like it! Modern version of the vaudeville hook.
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.
THIS!
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.................
I doubt hell change. Next time he offends, boot him and ban him for life.
Acosta knows what the rules are. If he breaks them again, its all on him.
How about a Laser Pointer?.........................attached to 45.......................
It is kind of like a restrictive dress code at work in places that deal with the public.
Companies would prefer to treat their employees as adults and let them decide what is appropriate, but there is a segment of the workforce in nearly every company that ruins it for normal people because they have to push the limit. They come in wearing blue jeans with holes in them, tank tops, you name it.
Then the company is forced to have management come up with a dress code, with a path to dismissal for repeated non-compliance, and managers have to monitor it, write things up, discipline or fire people, put ANOTHER layer of bureaucracy in place simply because some people just cannot be adults.
Like the Media. They have to be treated like children, with strict guidelines and rules because they have no conception of professional conduct (with some exceptions, and this does not apply to them)
Screw them. Screw every one of the filthy leftist jerks.
Above all....
Remember that you are REPORTERS and JOURNALISTS. You are in the White House to ask legitimate questions. You are not there to represent the Democrat Party, or push their talking points or agenda.
I usually go naked.
I think that is a great idea!
LOL, when you are “Lazamataz, Inc.” you get to rule!
After a good tasing, of course. With a stream of pepper spray into the eyes. Then two Secret Service agents to grab them by each arm and escort them out of the press room, where they can throw them roughly to the ground.
and lower the jabbering nitwit into waiting security at back of the room.
. . . .
and then apply 440v to the cable.
AKA, The Acosta Rules!
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