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Jim Acosta's CNN role further muddled by upcoming book: 'You can’t tell the difference between him 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."

Acosta’s book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America,” comes out June 11 and publisher Harper Collins has placed a strict embargo on its content. While the book will be kept under wraps until the publication date, a quick glance at the official description leaves little doubt that it will paint the president in a negative light.

Jim Acosta is the leading candidate for this years Joseph Goebbels Propaganda Award!

The trophy has the following Joseph Goebbels quotations engraved:

"We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection."

"Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose."

"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself".

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."

"A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth".

"There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology."

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."

"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise."

"If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses"

I’m so grateful for our freedoms but when I see 98% of our media not reporting the truth; using their freedom as a campaign contribution, I’m so angry. We need an amendment on abuse of the first amendment by the media. Campaign contributions/lies to help someone vs getting the truth out there. High profile people- politicians can’t sue, so how do you fight this? I don’t know very much about our laws but I can see the media is lying to the American people-and too many believe what they hear or read. Today they report for the purpose of helping someone gain power and another losing. What can be done?

I have the same concerns.

President Trump has talked about changing libel laws so that if the media knowingly lies about a public figure, the media can be sued. Currently that doesn’t seem to be possible, but it should be an option. We know they have lied.

On the issue of the media blatantly helping one party (even to the point of providing debate questions ahead of time) I don’t know what can be done. They cheat. They cheat with confidence, knowing that they are untouchable.

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