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Tuesday November 20, 2018
Volume 57 Issue 11
CNN Sues The W hite House Over The Banning of Acosta ANAMARIA APARICIO Reporter
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CNN filed a lawsuit against The White House over the recent suspension of Jim Acosta’s press pass. The lawsuit alleged that Acosta and CNN’s First and Fifth Amendment were being violated, but as of recent, their lawsuit has been dropped according to the networks communication team and Acosta has restored his press pass. On Friday November 16, 2018, federal judge Timothy J. Kelly ruled that CNN correspondent Jim Acosta can keep his White House press pass. As of most recent, Monday November 19, 2018, both parties dropped their efforts on ruling against each other. According to CNBC, White House representative Sandra Huckabee Sanders stated to reporters, “This afternoon we have notified Jim Acosta and CNN that his hard pass has been restored,We have also notified him of certain rules that will govern White House press conferences going forward.” These new rules are, “A journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists. 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.“Yielding the floor” includes, when applicable, physically surrendering the microphone to White House staff for use by the next questioner.Failure to abide by any of rules 1-3 may result in suspension or revocation of the journalist’s hard pass.” This began when Trump called on Acosta
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Illustration By Sabrina Torres/EPM on November Seventh continue. Acosta refused to give the microphone during a press conference. to the intern at first, but Both these men went back eventually handed it over. and forth over Trump’s Lawyer Ted Olson, immigration rhetoric representative for CNN, and Acosta then asked a stated in an interview for third question on Special CNN that,“Journalists Counsel Robert Mueller’s cannot be silenced, investigation. censored or intimidated. Trump chose to ignore That’s the end of the line. his questions and picked The White House cannot on another reporter to
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get away with this.” Murad Saakyan, a Journalism Professor at Rio Hondo, stated that, “Trump can’t eliminate freedom of the press but he can evoke violence during one of this rallies which he does frequently. Calling journalists ‘enemies of the people’ is what is causing Americans to seek news from sketchy websites because according to the President of the United States, we can’t trust what we hear on CNN or MSNBC. “ CNN had received support from more than a dozen news outlets. From the Associated Press to USA Today, The Washington Post, Politico, and Fox News. This isn’t the first time something like this happens. Saakyan also stated, “This administration has clearly decided to pick and choose who gets to be labeled ‘real news’ and which gets to be labeled ‘fake news.’ There was a photograph taken at a Trump rally where one of his supporters is wearing a shirt that gives instructions on how to hang a journalist. It’s a crazy time to be a journalist right now. But this isn’t new. Richard Nixon tried to revoke The Washington Post from getting into the White House. This was because Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein blew the Watergate scandal wide open in 1972. Trump is trying to ban one journalist, Nixon tried to stop an entire publication.”
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