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CNN’s Acosta: ‘If Journalism Is Attacked, We Should Resist’
dailycaller.com ^ | 12/4/17 | Amber Randall

Posted on 12/04/2017 1:20:04 PM PST by ColdOne

CNN’s senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta called on reporters to “resist” when they are attacked at a Monday journalism summit in Washington, D.C.

Acosta pointed out that while journalists are not members of the “resistance,” they should still “stand up” when the institution of journalism is being attacked.

“We are not part of ‘the Resistance’ but … if journalism is attacked, we should resist. That is up to us,” Acosta reportedly told those gathered at the Poynter Ethics Summit. The conference gathered Washington correspondents and other editors to speak on how to report in an era where trust in the media has declined.

“I think these are all just American principles that we are allowed to push back on in our work,” Acosta added.

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KEYWORDS: acosta; cnn; domesticenemies; fakenews; jimacosta; journalism
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To: Larry Lucido; All

Dang spell check....LOL.. Goebbels.


21 posted on 12/04/2017 1:25:44 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
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To: ColdOne

What journalism? Propaganda yes, journalism, no.


22 posted on 12/04/2017 1:26:16 PM PST by Lent
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To: ColdOne
The fact that the Mainstream Media acts like the Soviet Union-era Pravda doesn't help things for the MSM. Indeed, they are often flummoxed when going to "flyover country."
23 posted on 12/04/2017 1:26:46 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Who got tbe debate questions in advance?


24 posted on 12/04/2017 1:27:06 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: ColdOne

Hahaha….Acosta thinks he can fool us into thinking they haven’t been resisting yet. We all know they’ve been part of the Democrat effort to get rid of our President since he was elected, and we do not appreciate it. We put up with their a**hole emperor for eight miserable years, and we expect the same from the Left now.


25 posted on 12/04/2017 1:27:20 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“LOL journalism. now THAT is funny..these are NOT journalists, these are LEFTISTS who get their daily instructions from the DNC”

Stop reading my mind, right this minute!


26 posted on 12/04/2017 1:27:41 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: ColdOne

resist for being called a liar when you ARE a liar?


27 posted on 12/04/2017 1:28:06 PM PST by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: ColdOne

What is “the resistance” they drone on about? What are they resisting.

Conservatives are resisting a march toward government tyranny and socialism in America. What do liberals think they are resisting, our resistance?

If we are the antiestablishmentarians, are they not the antidisestablishmentarianists? They want the corrupted status quo and we want to unseat the corrupted establishment government.


28 posted on 12/04/2017 1:28:21 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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To: ColdOne

The Brian Ross suspension hit a bit close to home.


29 posted on 12/04/2017 1:28:50 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: ColdOne

I agree with Acosta...

He’s correct except CNN doesn’t practice journalism...


30 posted on 12/04/2017 1:29:05 PM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: ColdOne

CNN is the conservative’s gift from heaven.
A more idiotic group of clowns could not be made up.


31 posted on 12/04/2017 1:29:40 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ColdOne
I guess there is no chance for self-reflection, you know, maybe all those people have a point.

Nah, let's double down on the dumb.

32 posted on 12/04/2017 1:30:25 PM PST by Pietro
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To: ColdOne

If journalism keeps lying, being disingenuous and hypocrites, then yeah, they should be attacked - verbally that is; not inciting riots as they did when Trump was elected vs 0bama being emaculated by the MSMLSD.


33 posted on 12/04/2017 1:31:44 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: ColdOne

There are attacks on propaganda outlets, such as CNN/MSNBC/NYT/WaPo/ABC/NPR, but I have seen no attacks on real journalists.


34 posted on 12/04/2017 1:31:51 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ColdOne

Hey, Acosta! This is what Union general William T. Sherman had to say on the matter:

“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as little more than spies, which, in truth, they are. If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting press dispatches from Hell before breakfast.” William Tecumseh Sherman


35 posted on 12/04/2017 1:33:32 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Pollster1
He says "the resistance" like it's a thing.

What a douche.

36 posted on 12/04/2017 1:33:51 PM PST by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
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To: ColdOne

Of course you should resist!

If you didn’t have a politically driven agenda and what you published was criticized, you’d decide whether a review was necessary to determine if you are having problems with accuracy because your responsibility to your readers would compel you to want to.

IF you DID have a politically driven agenda and what you puked out was “attacked”, you’d attack your attacker.

Derp. Acosta, could you be any more obvious?


37 posted on 12/04/2017 1:33:55 PM PST by z3n
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To: ColdOne

Sounds like Muslims, constantly on the attack, and whining in fear that their victims might someday fight back.


38 posted on 12/04/2017 1:34:27 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yup. Subversive, lying, anti-America, anti-constitution “leftist revolutionary” claptrap is NOT journalism. It’s propaganda.


39 posted on 12/04/2017 1:34:32 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: ColdOne

I remember how the lamestream media all rallied around Fox News when Obama repeatedly attacked them.


40 posted on 12/04/2017 1:36:00 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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